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I went OSS only for many years. It's not that hard if you use ethernet and don't need 3d acceleration. Could the average person do it? Definitely not.


The OSS Radeon driver is more than sufficient nowadays for non-3d composting of windows and playback of video.

Intels integrated gpu driver is also really good, to the point where you can play ~5 year old games on it just fine with a high end chip.

I wonder how you would pull off OSS hard drive / ram / mobo / psu / etc. It would require that the design schematics and documentation are public. I assume many of them are, but some might not be, and it would be a pain to investigate open hardware.


I believe possibilistic was talking about stuff like BIOS firmwares rather than graphics drivers.




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