Comment on Why can computers, like even very old laptops can seemingly get OS updates forever, while mobile devices hardly get a few years of updates before getting stuck out of date?

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FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

There’s really no way to do this without making the whole driver source-available, as there’s no way to update it to a new Kernel without full source access. That’d be great, but the manufacturers will fight tooth-and-nail against that, especially since the drivers can contain trade secrets.

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