I have an ASUS motherboard and armoury is malware haha
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2025
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Is this sort of thing normal for the Linux kernel? I would never expect this to have a place inside it but rather be some seperate module?
Idk kernel design at all, this seems like bloat?
It is a module. No need to load it if you don’t have an ASUS.
Linux is a "monolithic kernel" where lots of things like drivers and services are inside it, apprently making it faster than a microkernel.
Normally it should be quite small. It's just exposing an interface to a few simple bits of hardware.
Please kindly fuck off ASUS.
Wtf why? 😭😭
I’m running Manjaro on my Ally X and am using it as my main device
I’d very much like these drivers to be on it
right? I'm running a Strix laptop and I'm happy they're dropping this. never seen somebody look at a manufacturer adding support for linux and tell them to "fuck off".
Oh, does this mean my ASUS laptop would be supported better?
I assume this is something that will be a flag during compile or something, and only useful for asus hardware, and not something every one will have in all kernels on all hardware?