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Every time I install windows, I spend easily half a day hunting down drivers. All of this is installed automatically with linux, and especially Ubuntu installs.
by patrick451 5y ago
Every time I install windows, I spend easily half a day hunting down drivers. All of this is installed automatically with linux, and especially Ubuntu installs. The last time I installed windows, I got two black strips on either side of the display. No amount of GPU driver shenanigans would fix it. It worked first try on linux.
- kinjba11 5y agoAnecdotal of course, but I've had the opposite experience. When I install Windows, the first thing I do is let Windows Update take care of everything. You could say it's "installed automatically". The only drivers I've needed to install in the past 5 years was Nvidia drivers for graphics cards or the odd printer driver. And downloading these drivers is super easy taking 5 minutes at most - the first search result for "nvidia download drivers" is the correct one. Maybe I'm just unlucky, but every time I've installed Linux something with the drivers always breaks - video playback is choppy, wireless drops randomly, audio breaks, the fingerprint reader doesn't work. Using WSL2 or a VM is much easier when I want Linux.
- pradn 5y agoWe're all talking anecdotes, but all I have to do is install the NVIDIA driver updater and I'm good to go.
- bkallus 5y agoI had this same problem. Was it an old Radeon card? I don't remember the model, but Microsoft's website said it was too old, so it only has basic support from Windows 10. That means black bars. Drove an ultrawide monitor in Linux just fine.