This is excellent recycling of the cringe original

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

Meanwhile, Windows in 2023: "oh, you plugged the same flash drive into a different USB port? Better reinstall a new set of drivers!"

So many Lemmy users are going to feel personally attacked seeing this lol

How do you recognize a Linux user?

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

Go to hp website and download crapware thats gonna search for drivers for you. Make sure to install symantics bullshit, amd catalyst bullshit, hp battery bullshit and other useless crap too.

Meanwhile linux boots to a perfectly running computer first time with no icons in the tray.

“I hate searching for drivers”

???

Of all the Linux nitpicks, you chose the one wrong answer.

Linux is way better with automatically installing drivers than Windows. Unless you’re using Nvidia, it’s literally in the kernel.

Linux has the issue of lacking in enterprise media software like Microsoft Office and Adobe Products. The former of which has long since become a non-issue. Adobe however persists. And some games will never run so long as the devs hold them hostage on anti-proton anticheat varients.

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.

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.

Am sorry, but what? Who searches for drivers on Linux? I've been a user for decades now and searching is either don't buy shit hardware or just do apt search.

Windows on the other hand is literally looking on support sites to find latest version.

Missed opportunity to say "for tux sake"

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

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.

I've blocked every Linux community I can find and I still can't get away from it

I have never even thought about drivers let alone search for them in Linux. Everything just works out of the box.

The only exception was when I wanted to try a different version of an NVIDIA driver. Ironically the one that worked best was the one that came with Ubuntu and was installed by clicking a checkbox to use proprietary drivers over open source

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

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?

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

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.

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

bag pack? its backpack, no?

Based dad!

Edit: daughter bad!!

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.

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

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.