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For Linux user it is sort of shock. Also why that thing has 230MB? Even 10MB would be too much.
by jkot 12y ago
For Linux user it is sort of shock. Also why that thing has 230MB? Even 10MB would be too much.
- zamalek 12y agoThere is probably 10MB worth of driver, and 220MB worth of crapware. If you install a fresh copy of Windows those hardware vendors are going to try their damned hardest to get their crapware back on to your machine.
- theandrewbailey 12y agoThat 220MB includes some app with a not native UI (likely ugly and unintuitive) to enable unnecessary features. I have it even worse: every time I plug my Razer mouse into a different port, the driver installer comes up. I've NEVER downloaded the thing, and it came to me through Windows Update. I always say "Never Install" but it always comes back, but the mouse functions fine without.
- zenlot 12y agoI have just opened support.lenovo.com and checked for the drivers of Yoga models, randomly chosen 4 of those, and all the official WiFi drivers are worth: 64MB. I am not sure what the author was downloading then. --- BCM WIFI driver for Windows 8.1 (32-bit) exe 64 MB Windows 8.1 (32-bit) Wifi-BCM-5.93.98.207 2/12/2015 ---
- TheRealDunkirk 12y agoHeh. Last time I installed the "driver" for my Logitech mouse on Windows, I think it was 150 MB. 150 MB! For a mouse driver!? I remember when we got REAL WORK done with DOS 6.22, Windows 3.11, and Office 4.0, and it all fit on a 10 MB hard drive, with room left over for Doom.