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Are Feature Bounties a thing? (fedia.io)

submitted 2 days ago by Hello_there@fedia.io to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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Bug bounties are cash rewards for finding bugs. Has anyone done a crowdsourced bounty for adding a feature to linux? E.g., driver support for a certain peripheral. If enough people want it, and drop $10 each, seems like it would quickly become worth it for someone to code a fix.

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[–] smeg@infosec.pub 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, it's a thing, but not centralized with the Linux development team or anything.

For example: Linux for ROG developed all of the drivers and software to take full advantage of the Asus ROG gamer laptop series

[–] tux7350@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I cant code to save my life but I cobbled together my asus laptop and got the sound working. Due to an extra AMP, I had to patch the SSDT. I found a thread on how to do it on another laptop then found the idenifier for my laptop and patched it in. The laptop had just been released, so I went to the discord and pasted a how to.

The repo owner reached out to me and asked me if I could provide a couple of other identifiers, they were so incredibly friendly! I had never done something like this before and they greatfully created a better patch and submitted it upstream.

It was super awesome to have someone help me and ensure that the work was pushed out so other people could use it. 10/10 would contribute to the Asus on Linux project any day!!