> Perhaps, rather than characterizing Linux users as whiny, we could take away the idea that many Linux users are willing to put in quite a lot of work to make things better for each other.
That's more an "Open Source" thing rather than Linux specific. A personal case in point was when I got Mellanox adapter support officially added to FreeNAS (now TrueNAS) because that's the adapter brand I had and needed it to work.
Not a super huge effort as the FreeBSD driver worked (so just needed porting), but the integration process and follow up testing/advocacy/etc work wasn't exactly trivial either.
That's more an "Open Source" thing rather than Linux specific. A personal case in point was when I got Mellanox adapter support officially added to FreeNAS (now TrueNAS) because that's the adapter brand I had and needed it to work.
Not a super huge effort as the FreeBSD driver worked (so just needed porting), but the integration process and follow up testing/advocacy/etc work wasn't exactly trivial either.