@alyx @j That's a lot of words to state the obvious that manufactures only think about writing proprietary windows drivers for their hardware and obviously anyone else has to wait until a least the protocol is standardized before it can be implemented.

>WiFi support has been a notorious issue for Linux? Why didn't the community take active measures to get more people involved in that part of development before?
The Wi-Fi support issue is due to many cards requiring proprietary peripheral software that you are sometimes even forbidden to distribute (not that you should do so) and throwing more people at that kind of issue is not going to help, unless you can find the handful of people in the world that are extremely skilled at reverse engineering and write replacement peripheral software (unfortunately most of such people don't really care about freedom, thus usually don't bother if they see that the manufacturer will adjust the proprietary license to allow re-distribution).

>Linux and open source are good my mere chance, not because of the competency of everyone involved.
Linux only ever became functional due to the competency. of the GNU developers.

>This entire thing is being kept aloft thanks to Linus.
You really love giving credit to the wrong person don't you?

Linus is more like a DU sinker.

>When he goes away, if things don't improve in leadership, Linux is gonna flop faster than Windows 8.
If that happens, GNU Linux-libre and/or GNU Hurd will save the day.