I'd make an argument for the opposite if we're talking about the general field. The major OEMs are going head first into enshittification, while other companies are building for more open ecosystems.

For anyone looking for a list of manufacturers intentionally trying to make their hardware more compatible with open ecosystems:

• Framework
• System76
• ASRock
• Minisforum
• Slimbook (they make the KDE branded laptop)
• MNT
• GL.iNet (routers only so far)
• Penguin
• Supermicro
• Star Labs
• Pine
• Clevo

I'm sure there are others, but these are the ones that are deliberately building intentionally FOR mass compatibility, unlike HP, Dell, Lenovo, ASUS...etc.

This is not to say there aren't some models from the major manufacturer product lines that aren't widely compatible, but their main focus is not those products.

Can someone tell Scott that they added the driver for his laptop on November 29th? Almost a month before he made this post.

Further, from some light reading on the subject after searching around it sounds like since most stuff is moving to NVMe drives, Intel is indeed slowly removing ACHI from newer devices, which does mean you need those IRST drivers to boot and recognize disks.

I think it's less companies trying to fuck us over and a hiccup in the slow but steady adoption and adaptation of new technologies.

EDIT:

Here's the Intel Rapid Store Technology driver for the other PC he pointed out, too. This one was added in November 2023.

This seems like it's a non-issue and maybe this guy just doesn't know what the IRST acronym stands for?

Much ado about literally nothing. This is literally based on nothing but his own speculation based on his failure to find these drivers that literally exist and are available. Honestly should be removed as misinformation since both PCs he mentioned have IRST drivers available right now.

I thought he was talking about locked-down bootloaders or something. Because that's a real concern to me.

Slowly? No.

No, not slowly. They've been accelerating toward this.

Oh man he's going to be so pissed when he finds out what Intel have been doing for 50 years

Why is this entire Lemmy community just weird leading-title BS articles about nothing?

This is why I just bought two framework laptops. They're doing the exact opposite.

I think this is pretty much a non-issue. If the Windows installer is broken, that's not necessarily Dell's fault. And you could just install a different OS with NVMe support.. I've stopped switching everything to "legacy" and AHCI a long time ago...