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cosmic_cheese 56 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report

Eh, with prebuilt PCs it’s muddy because the bulk of heavy lifting is done by Microsoft, not the manufacturer. It’s not unusual at all to pull up the firmware/drivers/etc page for a random laptop and find that updates stopped rolling out about 2 years after its introduction to the market, despite Reddit and similar being filled with reports of firmware bugs for that particular model.

GTP 56 days ago [–]

Fair point, but I think the lack of those updates impacts the average consumer much less than lack of OS updates.

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