> 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 bar

> 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.