I hear it every time: But Muh Windows is better, because you dont have to install Drivers!!!11!11elf
And every time I have to force myself to tell them that its even Easier to install drivers on Linux, because you dont even need to know if you have an AMD or an Nvidia Card, you just open the Software and click on the recommended install
Recently built a PC with an AMD GPU. Tried to figure out how to install AMD drivers, because Mint's driver manager didn't seem to offer anything like it would for nvidia... Turns out AMD drivers are just part of the Linux kernel and you don't need to install them at all. Nice.
I did have one problem though - my hardware is too new and the kernel shipped with Mint doesn't really support it yet. But it was surprisingly easy to install a newer kernel. And anyway for any PC that doesn't use bleeding edge hardware, this would never be an issue.
<3 Mint and Linux
Do people really say this? Iโve literally never had to manually install drivers on Linux. Almost everything is built in to the kernel except NVIDIA drivers, which every distribution Iโve used has an option for in the installer.
Meanwhile, Iโve frequently had to go to a website to download and install drivers on Windows. And then itโs a dice roll if that โdriverโ trojans an entire suite of bloatware onto your machine.
Occasionally you will have issues with ancient hardware needing specific broadcom stuff. Also, Surface tablets require a little bit of work.
Other than that I have been having a great time not installing drivers on Linux for the 7 other computers I have recently been managing.
HP printers are even easier on Linux than Windows with hplip.
Just run DDU bro.
Just run scansfx /now bro.
Just run oobe\bypassnro bro.
Just run Chris Titus Tech Tool bro.
No Linux is too hard bro.
The only driver I need is the proprietary NVidia drivers, but you need to do it on Windows as well so... Eh
nixos-hardware go brrr
Most problematic devices which not have firmware inside them to work so old printers before 2015 I guess and scanners is trash cause they use their own proprietary protocol ,WiFi adapters generally works but exception exist
But fr fuck Nvidia. Two different distros (Ubuntu/fedora) and couldn't use a Nvidia gpu as primary display.
Funny though, I only had to install drivers manually on Windows for years now, but not on the various Linux systems I manage.
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