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What is the problem, exactly? As a user, it's completely transparent to me. Besides, not 100% of the drivers are upstreamed... see Nvidia for example. It just
by Alupis 5y ago
What is the problem, exactly? As a user, it's completely transparent to me.
Besides, not 100% of the drivers are upstreamed... see Nvidia for example. It just means nearly 100% of hardware works out of the box with zero fuss or configuration.
The same really cannot be said about Windows, which sometimes still requires drivers just to see hard disks during the install.
- kvark 5y agoNVidia in particular has been painful to update on my laptop, and it doesn't work well with the rest of the system.
- Alupis 5y agoYes, unfortunately they continue to stick with proprietary, what seems like afterthought, linux drivers that must be manually installed.
- watermelon0 5y agoThis doesn't really mean much to most people, since 99% of drivers are for obsolete or rarely used hardware. If you have recent enough devices, experience is much better on Windows. When I built a new PC about a year ago, installation of Windows was a breeze, and all drivers were automatically installed. Whereas on Linux side, I've tried latest version of two popular Linux distributions (Ubuntu and another one I cannot remember), and they didn't even have the network adapter drivers. After spending some time I just gave up, because it was not trivial to fix it.