Matthew Garrett

That's a really unfair double standard. If there's a BIOS issue and we can fix it in firmware and actively do fix it why can't we tell people to go and use it? That can keep quirks out of the kernel! There was a problem with a bunch of the recent E series machines that we issued a BIOS fix for related to keyboard repeating specific to Linux. People had no problem applying that update.

Some people. Others probably just assumed Linux was broken and went back to Windows, or just put up with it forever. Firmware updates are pretty much the preserve of technical users, even more so than Linux.

There are plenty of quirks in Windows drivers, they're obfuscated though and not as obvious since we don't see the source.

I've spent a bunch of time looking, and I really haven't found much evidence that this is true. A lot of hardware works with shrinkwrapped Windows media, even if it was shipped later.

* Intel audio will support something different for Skylake than we have for Broadwell (I2S). Intel will need to comment more on this though as the information I have is under NDA.

Cool. I'll see what I can find out about that.

* Windows 10 platforms will introduce Modern Standby.

Is this more than what's in ACPI 6.0?

* PCIe SSD's will become very important.

Are we talking PCIe SSDs in the "Present as an AHCI controller" sense, or NVMe, or something more exciting? I think we're fairly on top of this one.