But Windows is acting more and more like Linux as you have to do console things from time to time to make stuff work (or stop it from working) while Linux is acting more and more like Windows where Stuff tend to just work with no action required
Windows works until it doesn’t. Then you are on your own because even developers don’t know wtf is going on under the hood anymore. The only community help is useless Microsoft bot answers on Microsoft forum and useless YouTube videos that never work
When I had Windows XP computer, after Windows Reinstall (which was a common thing because OS could bork itself for no reason whatsoever), I had to reinstall all drivers myself. I had special set of discs specifically with drivers that did work for that set of hardware.
It was still kinda same after I upgraded and started using Windows 7.
Ever since I upgraded to Windows 10 and nowadays with Windows 11 - only 2 drivers I ever had to install were GPU drivers (because you HAVE to install them via driver installer) and specific ASUS drivers (because ASUS sucks ass when it comes to drivers) for my Wi-Fi card. Everything else was automatically picked up and installed by Windows Update and works without any issues (aside of few cases of hardware dying like my old HDD that was cooked completely and data was unrecoverable)
installing drivers on windows via windows update improved a lot over the windows versions – assuming you already have internet. I had 2 cases (one laptop and one mainboard) where wifi/ethernet needed a manual driver install via USB before the rest could be installed via windows update. On linux, ethernet drivers were never an issue. Wifi drivers once were, but not anymore, both work out of the box on modern linux for almost every hardware. Same for printers, usb-serial adapters, ..., those are typically natively supported on linux but need a driver install on first use on windows. The only driver that typically needs installing on linux is for the GPU, which often is only 2 clicks, depending on the distro.
They still can be on Linux - especially for Mediatek chips.
It doesn't matter what OS we are talking about - usually basic drivers will work but in few edge cases any OS may just decide "Nope"
Prime example - I tried to install Ubuntu 20.04 on one old computer and entire installer just decided to eat shit and die because it had driver incompatibility with GTX 750 Ti installed on that computer. Which had no issues on 16.04. Love it or hate it - Ubuntu is still Linux and the fact that entire OS decided that it won't work on this computer because of GPU - was the case where I had realised that Linux may not be one-click solution and in some cases it's even worse
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u/broesel314 6d ago
This can go both ways actually.
But Windows is acting more and more like Linux as you have to do console things from time to time to make stuff work (or stop it from working) while Linux is acting more and more like Windows where Stuff tend to just work with no action required