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Shoutout to fwupd for updating device firmware (github.com)

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It updated a Thinkpad dock with no issues while on Windows, I had to find specific drivers and sketchy update utilities. Awesome!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I see the problem here? It does say most cases and I'd definitely consider Nix/GUIX users to be in the minority for this (on top of users who would even compile software themselves in the first place).

Also from what I experienced during my (not so long) time with NixOS, usually things in Nixpkgs were contributed there by community members who ported applications over to be compatible with Nix. Sure, it's a nice extra thing when the application developer does so out the gate, but given how special Nix and GUIX's environment is, the onus has never really been on the app dev.

[+] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I see, that's plenty fair enough, although I don't think they meant it quite so literally (but rather as a method of lightening their support requests - I don't have any fwupd capable hardware AFAIK however I get the feeling fwupd is pretty popular).

I find it really cool what Nix/Guix are doing and I give major props to their communities for what they've pulled off, for what its worth.