The thing is, when Windows came to market, especially from version 95 on, it became the "standart" OS on PCs, so, naturally, sound card makers started developing drivers for windows; also working closely with Microsoft, got most of these drivers bundled with Windows instalation. Even if a SC driver didnt came with windows itself, most of the time the driver supplied with the card was easy to install.
The Linux catch, wich everybody already know, is that "Linux" doesnt support ALL hardware, especially new hardware (like windows), wich doesnt help wide adoption of Linux on the desktop, wich, in turn, prevents the majority of hardware manufacturers from spending much effort in supporting Linux.
That said, Linux user base is growing despite this and so many others problems, wich may lead to Linux reaching that point in it will start a sinergy with hardware makers, and maybe sooner than later, hardware makers will spend their efforts in making windows drivers so much as in Linux (maybe closed?) modules, and like they did with Microsoft, will start working closely with kernel maintainers to get these (maybe open?) drivers built into the kernel itself. Actually, its already starting to happen. In fact, if things keep going like they are, we are very close to this scenario, where we wont have to worry a bit about hardware support in Linux.
Of course, a better driver model in Linux (better meaning easier) would help speeding up this A LOT!
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I think thats not really "Linux" fault.
The thing is, when Windows came to market, especially from version 95 on, it became the "standart" OS on PCs, so, naturally, sound card makers started developing drivers for windows; also working closely with Microsoft, got most of these drivers bundled with Windows instalation. Even if a SC driver didnt came with windows itself, most of the time the driver supplied with the card was easy to install.
The Linux catch, wich everybody already know, is that "Linux" doesnt support ALL hardware, especially new hardware (like windows), wich doesnt help wide adoption of Linux on the desktop, wich, in turn, prevents the majority of hardware manufacturers from spending much effort in supporting Linux.
That said, Linux user base is growing despite this and so many others problems, wich may lead to Linux reaching that point in it will start a sinergy with hardware makers, and maybe sooner than later, hardware makers will spend their efforts in making windows drivers so much as in Linux (maybe closed?) modules, and like they did with Microsoft, will start working closely with kernel maintainers to get these (maybe open?) drivers built into the kernel itself. Actually, its already starting to happen. In fact, if things keep going like they are, we are very close to this scenario, where we wont have to worry a bit about hardware support in Linux.
Of course, a better driver model in Linux (better meaning easier) would help speeding up this A LOT!