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

  • Epzillon@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 days ago

    And even so, if you require ancient drivers its probably even wonkier to get them working on Windows

    • SpikesOtherDog@ani.socialEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      I support several hundred Windows desktops, and most of them work okay out of the box. Since we are stripping down the Windows image, we are injecting the drives at imaging, so it is very difficult to compare.

      I CAN discuss that Windows 11 24h2 appears to have issues with scanners, and requires going into device manager and telling the computer to use the driver you just installed and is already selected.

      There for a while your could reach pretty far back and get 7 and 8 drivers working on 10 as long as they were whql. Often enough, XP and older drivers would work, assuming you used comparability mode and did just the right dance. I’m seeing lsa blocking some of that now.

      Again, it is difficult to compare a professional environment to my personal fleet, just considering scale and one-off cases.