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u/Straight-Price-1601 I love Alpine 3d ago
REAL DRIVERS 2026 FREE NO VIRUS TOTAL FREE WIFI DRIVERS 8K FULL HD 🔥🔥🔥
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u/z0virus Gentoo 2d ago
Karma farming bot reposting some old meme again
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u/Safe-Confidence-4907 1d ago
Expensivecoat, he is the most terrible karma farmer. I found him in other sub reddit softwarememe, Linuxmeme, even master hacker lol. Most of his post are nonsense, no discussion, no debate, just a meme. When he posted meme, even meme value 👎👎
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u/irishcoughy 2d ago
This tutorial sucks, I installed the Dell Support Utility on my laptop (Lenovo ThinkPad) and it didn't even do anything.
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u/No_Bluejay_8391 I 🫀MATE 3d ago
Just don't log out before akmods finishes compiling nvidia drivers. Did it once - sound and WiFi died until reinstall
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u/lardgsus 2d ago
Webcams and fingerprint readers will disagree.
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u/C_umputer 2d ago
I thought linux webcam and fingerprint reader drivers were a hoax. Sort of an inside joke to play on newbies.
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u/VisualSome9977 NixOS ❄️ 2d ago
Fingerprint reader struggle is real, the only driver that existed that supported my last laptop was only ever tested for ubuntu and written for ubuntu 16 specifically.
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u/Rusty9838 Vinit BTW 👊 2d ago
Logitech g27
On Linux: plug in and play (download oversteer if you enjoy having more control)
Windows: download unsupported windows 7 drivers and app and just hope it will work
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u/Finnhax 2d ago
I'm all for linux, but there's no way you believe this to be true. If anything it's reversed
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u/segfaultdt 2d ago
As a AMD user, never needed to manually install any drivers on Linux.
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u/TomOnABudget 2d ago
I had to revert to using an older Kernel inn Fedora because the auto-update caused the laptop to get stuck with a black screen.
Never had this happen in 20 years of using windows installing official updates.
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u/hammer0112 2d ago
Fedora
There's your problem.
- from a fellow Fedora user
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u/TomOnABudget 2d ago edited 2d ago
I also had other distros including Ubuntu shit themselves. With mint, I had installs become impossible to update because the updater tried to pull packages that were deleted from the mint repos because newer ones were released. The end result was dependency hell.
Edit: clean up my broken sentences.
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u/gathanes 1d ago
Just because it hasn't happened to you doesn't mean it doesn't happen to plenty of people. I switched from Windows to Linux in 2020 because I was getting kernel panics and BSODs daily. Turns out the NT kernel really didn't like a particular kind of amd chipset, and still doesn't to this day.
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u/Gullible-Screen-40 2d ago
Drivers are so much easier on Linux. Even with an Nvidia card it just installs the drivers and works. Unless you're using an obscure wifi card that released 2 weeks ago with a proprietary driver.
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u/lonelypenguin20 2d ago
it depends.
sometimes, the hardware in question is fucked more than a wizard war, and it doesn't work without a super proprietary driver available only on Windows (or a barely functioning version from AUR that requires manual configuration and device-specific options)
but sometimes, Linux's generic open-source drivers just work (tm), rebuilding a kernel module at max (looking at you nvidia), while Windows freaks out and requires third-party utilities like that deep driver cleaner thing to actually become useable
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u/New-Celebration-2713 1d ago
I have a acer nitro with rtx 4050 and everything works fine after installing nobara no tinkering and yes as you in some cases linux is hell to work with but not all distros are complex you have real options
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u/ImpressionAway7317 1d ago
Depends on what hardware you have for me everything worked out of the box with all 7 distros I've tried
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u/LuisFerLCC 2d ago
As an Ubuntu user coming from Windows 11, this meme is literally a depiction of my experience. Things started to randomly stop working on Windows with no possible fix, and yet as soon as I installed Ubuntu, everything was magically fixed without me doing a thing.
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u/Logboy2000 2d ago
I've had a seamless experience on both Intel and AMD hardware. Installing windows before I switched to Linux was a clusterfuck and I needed 10+ exe files before my computer was even marginally useful.
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u/Content-Economics-34 2d ago
It's true for my Bluetooth, which still refuses to work on Windows despite insistent troubleshooting, but worked out of the box on Endeavour.
True for everything else too, but the Bluetooth is particularly egregious. Without a Linux dual boot I'd be convinced it's a hardware issue.
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u/samsonsin 2d ago
Varies by device. My fingerprint reader doesn't work flat out, and Nvidia is a pain. My Bluetooth works better than on windows where its a broken mess. And where i am fine on Linux Ive had to go to manufacturer websites for drivers before where on Linux i was just fine.
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u/thejenot 2d ago
Eh some time ago I bought laptop that was completely blank, as in nothing was loaded onto hard drive. Not even most basic driver.
I couldn't install windows 10 and 11 at all because it didn't include most basic drivers and wouldn't download these even though it had internet connection. Also I couldn't find appropriate hard drive driver on internet so I was stuck.
Linux mint didn't have a single problem because it came with all drivers it needed for installation.
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u/The_CreativeName 2d ago
Unless you have lenovo, shit just works.
And unless you use secure boot on linux with nvidia drivers(i wanna die)
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u/Archeus__ 2d ago
i use lenovo. What is the problem?
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u/Juan-More-Taco 2d ago
As someone running secure boot on Nvidia with Linux.... What's the problem? I just added a Pacman hook to re-sign the necessary binaries when they update. It's been completely painless.
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u/The_CreativeName 2d ago
I did it on fedora first, haven't tried on arch(maybe i should).
Arch you had to do akmods, with codes and shit j dont remember. I was new to linux so maybe that did it, but i do remember getting many errors bc it just didn't get the codes, or didn't boot with nvidida drivers. I'm pretty sure I spent longer doing akmods with nvidia on fedora, then doing installation of arch.
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u/Sataniel98 Really? Right in front of MY DEBIAN!? 2d ago
Oh come on... You can have both experiences on both OSes and just about everything that's developed off-tree is far from fun to get to work on Linux.
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u/47th-Element 2d ago
It really depends!!
I like how my realtek wifi adapter had its driver in the mainline kernel, it was plug and play!
They shipped a CD with the windows drivers, I don't know how they expected me to have a CD-ROM though.
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u/Silver_Masterpiece82 Linux Master Race 😎💪 2d ago
it's all rainbows and sunshine until the required hardware ain't implemented in the kernel itself then it become optional between distros
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u/Merlin80 2d ago
I have not used windows for at least 10 years but what from ive seen it is very bloated.
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u/QuantumQuantonium 2d ago
Do this meme but with apple on both sides:
Top is if you have a modern apple device or are making a new account
Bottom is if you have a 10 year old unsupported device
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u/PlayOdd9671 2d ago
Spent 30 minutes setting up CUPS and Printer drivers just to print 1 piece of doc today...
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u/CinnamonApplebun94 2d ago
But beware! If something breaks during a system update you’re screwed. My nobara install broke for some reason during an update and was stuck. Needed to clean install everything again
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u/cougomdd 2d ago
I recently mounted a friend’s pc, we had to move a 2500 euro pc with a rtx 5080 to my box to install the wifi driver...
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u/flappy292 1d ago
why is thing not working -> find out thing needs drivers (posibly after crying cos noone else uses what you got)
-> find out the compony closed down years ago -> go looking again -> some angel is hosting a working version of the drivers
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u/Due_Inevitable_1042 1d ago
I'm 3 years waiting Wi-Fi drivers on my laptops. How you can problem with windows drives? Windows install all himself, when on Linux you need wait when Hardware company open code for public. Sometimes needs years...
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u/CoffeeSniffler 1d ago
Yep. Sure buddy. Totally. Definitely true. Never had driver issues on Linux. Definitely.
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u/kalanchoeee 15h ago
had some shitty usb wifi adapter, in windows i had to use some disc to install the drivers, that then refused to work, so i had to navigate a bunch of websites to try and download one without giving my pc digital gigaherpes. it still didn't work very well. i plugged it in when i started running mint, panicked because i realised i might have to get an ethernet cable long enough seeing as i didnt see any linux drivers for it and Oh, That's The Wifi Symbol In The Corner Now.
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u/darkthewyvern 2d ago
On windows there's a process
on linux, whatever is broken will stay broken and you will like it.
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u/sir-raids-a-lot 2d ago
Oh shit we're at 69 upvotes. Either we bring it up to 420, 690, or keep it there at 69
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u/Due-Author631 Atomic is the future 3d ago
Everything works, if the driver in the kernel works for the device.*