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You've genuinely never had to install any drivers or change any settings after installing Windows? I find this very hard to believe.

saagarjha 8y ago
For printers and external accessories, maybe? My experience with laptops has always been that every built-in component works with no configuration, which isn’t true for Linux. However, I haven’t bought a Windows laptop for quite a while, so maybe this situation is no longer true?
- scooble 8y ago
  > However, I haven’t bought a Windows laptop for quite a while Are you talking about buying a laptop with windows pre-installed, or installing windows on a barebones laptop? I doubt that a laptop with linux preinstalled from e.g. dell requires you to install drivers. It's been a while since I did a barebones windows install, but I would be surprised if no drivers were required.
- OJFord 8y ago
  > My experience with laptops has always been that every built-in component works with no configuration, which isn’t true for Linux. Are you talking about laptops that shipped with Linux though? I suspect not. You'd have about as much fun putting macOS on a laptop that shipped with Windows, and vice versa, as you would putting Linux on either of them.
  - saagarjha 8y ago
    This isn't a valid comparison, since macOS doesn't have to goal that Linux and Windows do of running on a large variety of hardware. And this shows: it's a lot easier to install Linux on any old laptop (or even Windows, to some extent) than it is macOS.
blattimwind 8y ago
I think you still always need to install graphics drivers from AMD/nVidias site, because the stub-drivers included with Windows don't have proper OpenGL support.
- int_19h 8y ago
  I'm a heavy gamer, and I have been using video drivers from Windows Update for the past 8 years or so with no issues (other than Far Cry 5 complaining that they're old - but it still runs fine).

saagarjha 8y ago

For printers and external accessories, maybe? My experience with laptops has always been that every built-in component works with no configuration, which isn’t true for Linux. However, I haven’t bought a Windows laptop for quite a while, so maybe this situation is no longer true?

scooble 8y ago
> However, I haven’t bought a Windows laptop for quite a while Are you talking about buying a laptop with windows pre-installed, or installing windows on a barebones laptop? I doubt that a laptop with linux preinstalled from e.g. dell requires you to install drivers. It's been a while since I did a barebones windows install, but I would be surprised if no drivers were required.
OJFord 8y ago
> My experience with laptops has always been that every built-in component works with no configuration, which isn’t true for Linux. Are you talking about laptops that shipped with Linux though? I suspect not. You'd have about as much fun putting macOS on a laptop that shipped with Windows, and vice versa, as you would putting Linux on either of them.
- saagarjha 8y ago
  This isn't a valid comparison, since macOS doesn't have to goal that Linux and Windows do of running on a large variety of hardware. And this shows: it's a lot easier to install Linux on any old laptop (or even Windows, to some extent) than it is macOS.

blattimwind 8y ago

I think you still always need to install graphics drivers from AMD/nVidias site, because the stub-drivers included with Windows don't have proper OpenGL support.

int_19h 8y ago
I'm a heavy gamer, and I have been using video drivers from Windows Update for the past 8 years or so with no issues (other than Far Cry 5 complaining that they're old - but it still runs fine).