ok, but maybe you might recall that through their abuse of their privileged position and incumbency in massive amounts of US and other government bureaucratic systems (just go walk into any government office and tell me what OS is on every PC?) have also made it really difficult for even LINUX hardware support to appear, due to all kinds of NDAs and non-compete agreements between Microsoft and the majority of the hardware manufacturing industry

how long have you been working with linux? 10 years? I've been using it since 1995

i've struggled through network drivers, 3g modem drivers, serial drivers, graphic cards, all kinds of nonsense, and i know exactly who is behind why these companies aren't building broad support for their devices

and so is it really doing anyone else any good that they are now funding huge amounts of the development of the linux kernel now when we still hardly even get a bleeding video card driver from the second major CPU and GPU manufacturer... that actually works?

it took me almost a week to get my system working when I upgraded to an RX 7800XT, only Zorin linux, a linux distro that charges for value adds, not one that is sponsored by a bazilion shady intel funded gigacorps like Canonical, who are quite cosily in bed with Microsoft as well

it's offensive to laud linux and to cast shade on BSD because pfsense has abandoned it

pfsense has abandoned it because of abusive corporations with so much power they control the majority of the hardware industry, and they are doing it to pursue their genocidal agenda of AI killbots and feeding us all on bugs