Wireless driver assist has been an issue space for Linux. At one time many drivers have been lacking and customers had been required to use options such as ndiswrapper, which makes use of drivers made for the Windows operating system. Broadcom was notably criticized for not releasing drivers. This concern was additionally worked round by extracting proprietary firmware to be used on Linux.

Many Windows applications are developed utilizing the .NET Framework. Mono is an open supply implementation of .NET that runs on many platforms, together with Linux. In reality, the Mono website describes it as an implementation of C# …