alt Hacker NewsBut this ruins the entire idea of packaging software in a self-contained way, at least for a large class of programs.
It makes me wonder, does the OS still take its job of hardware abstraction seriously these days?
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direwolf20 • today at 12:46 PM
It does, and one way it does that is by dynamically loading the right driver code for your hardware.
maccard • today at 1:41 PM
That’s a licensing problem not a packaging problem. A DLL is a DLL - only thing that changes is whether you’re allowed redistribute it
The OS does. Nvidia doesn't.