I think that’s the reason why they’re being downvoted. It’s not true anymore. It used to be an issue, sure. But the same can be said about reinstalling windows without drivers.
Ahh, the bad old days where you’d do a clean install and windows would be an absolute basket case until you manually installed every driver. And then after all that you’d still have one unknown device in device manager that you’d pull your hair out trying to find drivers for.
Now you can install windows, do a windows update, and everything is good to go 90% of the time. And don’t get me started on linux, we’ve never been closer to “it just works” than we are today.
Good luck installing your drivers on a fresh copy of Windows if your network card didn’t come with a physical installation disc, because if you have to download your drivers without a network card you’re going to have serious trouble.
There was a time period where it was absolutely easier to set up a fresh Linux distro than a fresh Windows install, because the Linux distro could use your Ethernet card to download drivers even if WiFi didn’t work but Windows couldn’t use either of them.
I can’t use bluetooth and wifi didn’t work out of the box sound worked flawlessly but wifi I had to mess around and I don’t remember how I fixed it and bluetooth I still can’t make work the bluetooth thing just crashes straight away and the terminal insists I don’t have any bluetooth anything even though I do and it works fine on windows and I’m using mint
It always depends if you have proprietary hardware. I have multiple Macs at home I use as servers on Linux and the Broadcom wifi cards are a mess. But once you know what to do, it works well.
I think that’s the reason why they’re being downvoted. It’s not true anymore. It used to be an issue, sure. But the same can be said about reinstalling windows without drivers.
Ahh, the bad old days where you’d do a clean install and windows would be an absolute basket case until you manually installed every driver. And then after all that you’d still have one unknown device in device manager that you’d pull your hair out trying to find drivers for.
Now you can install windows, do a windows update, and everything is good to go 90% of the time. And don’t get me started on linux, we’ve never been closer to “it just works” than we are today.
Good luck installing your drivers on a fresh copy of Windows if your network card didn’t come with a physical installation disc, because if you have to download your drivers without a network card you’re going to have serious trouble.
There was a time period where it was absolutely easier to set up a fresh Linux distro than a fresh Windows install, because the Linux distro could use your Ethernet card to download drivers even if WiFi didn’t work but Windows couldn’t use either of them.
Yeah everything after 12.04 has pretty much worked for me no problem (on thinkpads). And nowadays I spend all my time on my steam deck.
In my view we’ve been in the linux golden age for years
I can’t use bluetooth and wifi didn’t work out of the box sound worked flawlessly but wifi I had to mess around and I don’t remember how I fixed it and bluetooth I still can’t make work the bluetooth thing just crashes straight away and the terminal insists I don’t have any bluetooth anything even though I do and it works fine on windows and I’m using mint
It always depends if you have proprietary hardware. I have multiple Macs at home I use as servers on Linux and the Broadcom wifi cards are a mess. But once you know what to do, it works well.