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Windows has also needed external drivers installed at times, since the DOS days. It's the nature of obscure, new, or advanced hardware.
by mixmastamyk 10mo ago
Windows has also needed external drivers installed at times, since the DOS days. It's the nature of obscure, new, or advanced hardware.
- Kye 10mo agoThe difference was the device came with a disk containing the driver for DOS and Windows.
- jacquesm 10mo agoI don't see how that is Linux' fault.
- Kye 10mo agoI didn't say it was. This discussion is about relative difficulty of setting things up. It is, objectively, more difficult when you need to download a driver for new hardware and the NIC on your laptop needs a driver your distro didn't come with.
- mixmastamyk 10mo agoNot for a very long time.
- Kye 10mo agoI don't buy a lot of hardware, but the last thing I bought (Vocaster One) came with the driver installer on a small USB mass storage volume when the device plugged in.