On 5/16/22 15:11, Fabian Maurer wrote:
Unpopular opinion: Even if there's a Linux driver, it doesn't hurt to have an alternative. Not all drivers are made equally, after all. There's been moments when people picked ndiswrapper over the Linux driver as well.
Perhaps, although it's unfortunate when the only or best driver is not Free Software. Accordingly, given the choice, I'd rather advocate for improving the host driver than accommodating the Windows driver.
ndiswrapper is also kind of a different case anyway. A driver in Wine can only be used by programs running in the same prefix, so improving driver support in Wine has considerably less value.
I wrote a wiki page recently that describes some of the considerations: https://wiki.winehq.org/Hardware