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Driver issues are way more of a thing on Windows than Linux or MacOS.
by igravious 7mo ago
Driver issues are way more of a thing on Windows than Linux or MacOS.
- UltraSane 7mo agoGetting hardware to work is MUCH harder on Linux
- freehorse 7mo agoLast years I have had more problem with hardware in windows than in linux. It is not so trivial anymore.
- UltraSane 7mo agoPlease provide examples.
- freehorse 7mo agoIn 2022 we got new zen 5 amd cpus almost when they came out, windows did not recognize a bunch of stuff and had to find and download individual drivers. In linux (ubuntu) everything worked out of the box, except only that the LTS release did not support the kernel that supported the new mobos yet and had to install the rolling release instead.
- gunapologist99 7mo agoPlease provide examples.
- thayne 7mo agoIt depends. For a lot of hardware it's actually easier to get working on linux, because the driver is just part of the kernel and you don't have to do anything special, including manually installing drivers, to get it working. There are some cases where hardware support on Linux is suboptimal, such as Nvidia cards and many fingerprint readers, but things are a LOT better now than they used to be. Most consumer laptops and desktops will run linux just fine.