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Are you saying Ubuntu has better driver support than Windows?
by Demiurge 13y ago
Are you saying Ubuntu has better driver support than Windows?
- dman 13y agoWithout question - thats been true for a few years now.
- hdevalence 13y agoI'm not the parent, but that has been my experience. Linux works better out of the box on my machine than Windows 7.
- puller 13y agoI think the point was that it frequently has a simpler install experience, which is true. It doesn't have better driver support for ATI video cards or Broadcom wifi cards.
- drakeandrews 13y agoYes. A million times yes. About a month ago now, my laptop's windows install decided to take a dive so I reinstalled windows and took it as an opportunity to dual boot ubuntu as well. Ubuntu worked out of the box. I'm still finding things that need drivers a month later in windows.
- Demiurge 13y agoI don't think this opinion can be based on personal experience. One or two computers, especially developers machines are a sample size too small. Also, I've had an opposite experiences. Not to mention that what we most notice is divergence from the past trend. Regardless, I don't think many hardware manufacturers prioritize Linux for their deployment. I can see, however, that since the latest Ubuntu image is at most 6 months old, it can have more built in, while Windows 7 is many years old now, tends to require 'Windows Update' to get all the latest drivers. Overall, however, I think Windows gets way more driver support just because of the market. I don't know how you can argue that.
- eliasmacpherson 13y agoBeen my experience too. But I would like to point out, in October 2013, for the first time in my twenty year history of using Windows computers, Windows 7 managed to find the drivers for a piece of hardware I have, a usb soundcard, Online!