&quot;it is unlikely to be a solution for weird hardware&quot;<p>But it&#x27;s there for the taking and tweaking! It&#x27;s the same as you solve your own problems in the *nix world, but it&#x27;s for the cases where you really don&#x27;t have any other solution but but to work with the hardware vendor&#x27;s black-box provided driver. BTW, don&#x27;t expect that buying Windows will solve your problems (because Microsoft seems to have acquired a taste for moving fast and breaking things lately).