There is only one course of action here and anything short of that is deeply sad and spitting in the face of Tolkien.
This card needs to be placed in a storage container somewhere randomly in the world and opened only 20 years from now at which point a group of individuals will attempt to take it to Tongariro which was the filming location for mount doom in the movies. They will each be offered 1 million $$ to sell the card at that point but if they accept it they will get the million in half off yogurt coupons. If they actually agree to cast it into the volcano of their own volition then a team will do that safely and film it well while the "fellowship" receives the actual million they were not promised if they agreed to do this.
If you just take the device on its own functions it is less powerful than it's competitors the supernote and the onyx tablets. It's had pretty bad customer relations due to paywalling a bunch of their features and then walking that back but the build quality is great.
One thing that they did right by pure accident though is give users a root shell into a mostly standard Linux and the community has built tooling that turns this into the most functional of the tablets...but keep in mind this is at the lament of the remarkable team who would rather you use the device as intended.
Supernote is the clear winner among the eink tablets if you use them as intended but many attempts to beg the supernote team to put shell access in have resulted in responses that are at best cautious and at worse condisending.
Until supernote releases the a5x2 (and even then it remains to be seen) this is the best eink tablet
To be fair...under the same conditions windows and even Linux a la Nvidia gracefully handles monitor assignment for matching serials so I think it's a bit disingenuous to say this is all on the monitor manufacturer...though I agree ultimately they are the primary party at fault.
Source: have this exact scenario and on windows/Linux Nvidia drivers it works and on Mac it flips everytime I come back from sleep. Same brand batch and serial, cables, ports, etc.
And I have an m1 pro with a simple HDMI to usbc and an HDMI direct so no hub/bus assignment funny stuff either it's directly plugged into dedicated ports.
This is a long standing question and has nothing to do with Linux or windows. It's a design philosophy.
Yes the win32 abi is very stable. It's also a very inflexible piece of code and it drags it's 20 year old context around with it. If you want to add something to it you are going to work and work hard to ensure that your feature plays nicely with 20 year old code and if what you want to do is ambitious...say refactor it to improve it's performance...you are eternally fighting a large chunk of the codebase implementation that can't be changed.
Linux isn't about that and it never has been, it's about making the best monolithic kernel possible with high level Unix concepts that don't always have to have faithful implementations. The upside here is that you can build large and ambitious features that refactor large parts of how core components work if you like, but you might only compile those features against a somewhat recent glib.
This is a choice. You the developer can link whatever version you want. If you want to build in support for glib then just use features that only existed 10 years ago and you'll get similar compatibility to win32. If not then you are free to explore new features and performance you don't have to implement or track provided you consider it a sensible use cases that someone has to be running a somewhat recent version of glib.
The pros and cons are up for you to decide but it's not as simple as saying that windows is better because it's focus is backwards compatibility. There is an ocean of contexts hidden behind that seemingly magical backwards support...
The NYTimes has a bad habit of hyperbole like this but in a world where 200 proof alcohol exists and prescription fentanyl is easily accessible it feels pretty well...boomer for lack of a better phrase.
This card needs to be placed in a storage container somewhere randomly in the world and opened only 20 years from now at which point a group of individuals will attempt to take it to Tongariro which was the filming location for mount doom in the movies. They will each be offered 1 million $$ to sell the card at that point but if they accept it they will get the million in half off yogurt coupons. If they actually agree to cast it into the volcano of their own volition then a team will do that safely and film it well while the "fellowship" receives the actual million they were not promised if they agreed to do this.