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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by EherVielleicht@feddit.de to c/memes@lemmy.ml
 
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[–] TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip 121 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is excellent recycling of the cringe original

[–] UlfKirsten@feddit.de 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] uzay@infosec.pub 100 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have had to spend so much more time thinking about drivers on Windows than on Linux it's not even funny

[–] Rendh@feddit.de 22 points 1 year ago (8 children)

And what are Nvidia users supposed to do?

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have never had problems with Nvidia drivers on Linux mint detects them and ask if you want to install the official drivers

[–] unwillingsomnambulist@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LMDE didn’t install the DKMS modules on my kid’s PC, so the nVidia drivers never loaded after a new kernel got installed. I do enough tech support at work so we chucked Pop!_OS on the PC (and set it up with btrfs and timeshift-autosnap) instead. No more problems.

May not be a problem with mainline Mint, of course, but there are weirdos like me who prefer the Debian edition.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't be ashamed of using Debian!

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[–] janAkali@lemmy.one 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're supposed to buy an AMD card, obviously. /s

[–] Rendh@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

I wish AMD had a competitive 4090 alternative

[–] FediMan@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Use POP OS which has NVIDIA Drivers in the iso

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[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm starting to wonder if this is a meme or if people are actually having problems.

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[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

...to let the distro pick the best driver for you? That's what I do at least.

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[–] WildlyCanadian@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

Ah yes, windows where I have to somehow figure out how to install the drivers for my network adapter before I can actually connect to the internet, on top of having to go to a different website for each device that needs a driver to find the correct one, download it and install it.

Vs Linux, where network (and most essential) drivers are baked into the kernel, and all other drivers (for peripherals, etc) can be had via a package manager, where you can often find free and open source solutions. Also, video drivers are automatically installed with the OS (provided you are using a distro with a proper graphical installer for ease of use, cough use Endeavour cough), and automatically updated when the system is updated.

[–] root_beer@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just installed Windows on my daughter’s new [to her] computer last night and this did not happen. Don’t get me wrong, I loathe Windows, but c’mon.

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[–] lunaticneko@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What kind of weird or shitty NIC you're using that needs a specific driver for Windows?

[–] Macros@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Lenovo IdeaPad Pro 5 Gen 8 Notebook comes with a MEDIATEK MT7922. Windows 11 does not want to install unless you circumvent the requirement for Internet or supply it with a manually downloaded driver.

Linux? Just works.

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[–] striderstroke@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I tend to have driver issues more so with Linux than windows in my experience. Both seem to be capable at the very least of automatically installing a lot of the drivers without user intervention.

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[–] CIWS-30@kbin.social 35 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Maybe for now, but as soon as more people switch to Windows 11 or Microsoft apps that constantly show you ads and are basically spam / adware themselves, Linux will get more appealing.

Microsoft is unfortunately learning from social media companies. Not only do you PAY for the product, you are also the product, and get your personal info stolen and get served ads even while you pay.

It's getting to the point where I'm seriously eyeballing Mint again, or Kubuntu. And I'm the kind of person that's generally too lazy to even dual boot anymore.

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry for the uncalled advice, but you might want to avoid Ubuntu. Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) is being rather obnoxious pushing for a technology called "snaps" that has a bunch of issues, among them performance.

Mint is fine. In fact I'm distro-hopping from Ubuntu to Mint again.

[–] EherVielleicht@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

I don't Mint the uncalled, ty.

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[–] SternburgExport@feddit.de 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you recognize a Linux user?

You don't. They'll tell you at the first opportunity.

[–] EherVielleicht@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am a vegan, Linux, unsexual. Thanks for asking.

[–] ritchie@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago

You forgot that you were using arch, btw.

[–] woodgen@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How do you even search for drivers in Linux? I thought this was a windows only thing

[–] ______@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You need to if your device isn't officially supported. This is pretty common for USB wifi cards.

There's a DB of officially supported cards , and if your card isn't there then you have to look up for a driver.

Usually they're fairly easy to find with just googling.

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[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've been using Linux for almost 20 years, and I can't remember the last time I had to stress over drivers. Of course, I always check Linux compatibility when I buy hardware.

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[–] roembol@lemmy.roembol.nl 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Missed opportunity to say "for tux sake"

[–] EherVielleicht@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Ohh, the agony.....

[–] H3wastooshort@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

plugging random old USB stuff into a computer:

linux: I guess this looks kind of like a webcam. Here you go, /dev/video0

windows: nooo! what is this?! go search for divers that dont register a hit on virustotal! see you in an hour.

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[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What on earth are you guys doing having to search the internet for drivers for Linux??? You not buy things that have Linux support advertised? Not looking for good reviews by other Linux users?

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[–] TheFerrango@lemmy.basedcount.com 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But… carefully skimming through pages of drivers was the best part of installing older versions of Windows.

[–] rastilin@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The newer ones too. Online Microsoft drivers are not always the ones you actually want to run.

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[–] iByteABit@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

The only driver I have ever needed to download manually was the proprietary Nvidia one, and that too was simply downloadable from Pacman.

Still, 7/10 meme for effort

[–] Safeguard 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fun part is... My printers are always recognized by Linux. Never by windows. I need to always download all kinds of stuff for windows.

Same thing for all of the other stuff in my computer. It's already in my Linux kernel. For windows I have to search for simple things like sound drivers!!!

So I'd say: Linux is easier!

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[–] Fluid@aussie.zone 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Never once had a driver issue on Mint. Literally did an entire rebuild (mobo, cpu, gpu, the works). Switched it on, everything worked perfectly, no OS reinstall or driver hunting.

Any issues I’ve heard about, the main culprit is nvidia cause of proprietary crap. Move to AMD graphics and it’s literally plug and play.

[–] pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never had any problems, just avoid the biggest GPU manufacturer? It's Nvidia's fault to supply shit drivers for Linux, but statements like this highlight how far away we are from "the year of the Linux desktop".

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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

F*** me, I was just setting up the Windows drivers on my old laptop to give away and it took hours of downloading proprietary freeware that kept installing random programs. It's 100x easier on Linux or MacOS

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[–] Harry_h0udini@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago

I love Foss and Linux, but to be honest I recently switched back to Windows 10 from Ubuntu and some other distros, cuz gaming issue and some hardware issue and nvidia issue. Linux needs lots and lots of improvements.

[–] moog@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

bag pack? its backpack, no?

[–] EherVielleicht@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

Thx, corrected.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The last panel is wrong. It should read "then stop buying shit hardware!"

Having said that, the last windows upgrade I did for someone - honestly, it was a hardware swap and data copy - also included new printers, webcam (webcam!) and wireless mouse because win10 was like "yeah, fuck you, we hate hardware more than 2 years old and we dropped support, so go get new stuff, Skippy."

So it happens with linux or windows, but for different reasons.

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[–] lunicoDee@feddit.it 12 points 1 year ago

Linux gas drivers in kernel, i have hardware that gas no need of anything else

[–] Veraticus@lib.lgbt 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Based dad!

Edit: daughter bad!!

[–] gnygnygny@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are much more devices and peripherals available for windows.

[–] Kabe@jlai.lu 7 points 1 year ago

It's more like new harware have drivers for the last winwdows directly but not always the case for linux and have to wait someone make one. But on old hardware it's the reverse it's already on linux but the windows one is no more compatible

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

The only driver I ever needed was the Brother laser printer ones which are well documented. Fedora btw, m'linux.

[–] Oszilloraptor@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

I have to admit I use mostly Ubuntu and Mint;

the only drivers I had to install (successfully) were ethernet and wifi drivers on laptops. (luckily bluetooth and usb-tethering always works.

The only driver I never managed to install is the fingerprint reader. But who can expect that a Dell Laptop for 5k€ that is sold by dell with a linux-option has linux drivers for all of the hardware...

[–] hogart@feddit.nu 6 points 1 year ago

I just didn't like the complexity to get in house game streaming to work. Moonlight/sunshine should work. But I also wanna be able to just remote my entire desktop. Do much easier on windows still.

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