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[–]sproketboy 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Nah, engineering is not magic. Microsoft has a shit ton of money to staff thousands of device driver developers and QA testers. Linux does not. It's as simple as that. After Microsoft implemented plug & play back in the late 90's the deal was already done. The GPL didn't help Linux in this area either.