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My two cents : I use linux for like ten years, and never touched a ms-windows during this time. Recently, I wanted to use windows only software, so I took a Nuc

My two cents : I use linux for like ten years, and never touched a ms-windows during this time. Recently, I wanted to use windows only software, so I took a Nuc (intel small computer) I own, and install windows 10 on it. While ubuntu, xunbuntu, alpine and so on work out of the box with any nucs, with windows, there was no wireless after install.I had to download a intel driver installer (in another computer, copy the .exe to a usb key, and install it with a gui setup program (click yes yes yes agree yes yes). I had the clear impression that right now, Ubuntu is the friendly way while MS-Windows is the diy/hacker way.

mkohlmyr 9y ago
I've had the same experience installing Ubuntu on a computer with a broadcom wireless chip. It all just comes down to chance unless you buy a hardware + OS combo, which generally actually means mac or Windows. If you install your own OS you have to expect there may be driver incompatibilities, that's just how it is.
- swebs 9y ago
  Ubuntu comes with drivers for Broadcom chips. You just have to select "yes" when the installer asks if you want to use proprietary drivers. Otherwise you have to open to the Software and Updates app, go to the Additional Drivers section, and manually check it.
swozey 9y ago
My desktop PC is Skylake with all fairly high end, popular brand parts that people use in gaming rigs specifically made for running Windows and I have to keep a folder around with about 20-25 things (drivers, chipset drivers, nic drivers, yadda yadda) everytime I boot. Reinstalled a few months ago and forgot to install Samsung Magician for my NVME drives and so they were capped at something like half their speed. I don't expect Microsoft to keep up with every vendors drivers but it'd be really nice if they let them tie into Windows update/device manager to tell you "Hey, swozey, I see hardwareID XYXYASUhF12 is running a generic driver, do you want to update to your vendor proprietary driver?" Maybe they do have that and hardware manufacturers just don't utilize it. After dealing with that 3-5 times over the last year (migrating to NVMEs, realizing I couldn't encrypt mine, migrating back, yadda yadda) I finally made a Veeam restore ISO which hopefully next time I do this will handle all of it. But I feel like it shouldn't take that to get my system up and running from a fresh install.

mkohlmyr 9y ago

I've had the same experience installing Ubuntu on a computer with a broadcom wireless chip. It all just comes down to chance unless you buy a hardware + OS combo, which generally actually means mac or Windows. If you install your own OS you have to expect there may be driver incompatibilities, that's just how it is.

swebs 9y ago
Ubuntu comes with drivers for Broadcom chips. You just have to select "yes" when the installer asks if you want to use proprietary drivers. Otherwise you have to open to the Software and Updates app, go to the Additional Drivers section, and manually check it.

swozey 9y ago

My desktop PC is Skylake with all fairly high end, popular brand parts that people use in gaming rigs specifically made for running Windows and I have to keep a folder around with about 20-25 things (drivers, chipset drivers, nic drivers, yadda yadda) everytime I boot. Reinstalled a few months ago and forgot to install Samsung Magician for my NVME drives and so they were capped at something like half their speed. I don't expect Microsoft to keep up with every vendors drivers but it'd be really nice if they let them tie into Windows update/device manager to tell you "Hey, swozey, I see hardwareID XYXYASUhF12 is running a generic driver, do you want to update to your vendor proprietary driver?" Maybe they do have that and hardware manufacturers just don't utilize it. After dealing with that 3-5 times over the last year (migrating to NVMEs, realizing I couldn't encrypt mine, migrating back, yadda yadda) I finally made a Veeam restore ISO which hopefully next time I do this will handle all of it. But I feel like it shouldn't take that to get my system up and running from a fresh install.