• riodoro1@lemmy.world
    532·
    9 months ago

    Next next finish

    Wait, why the fuck are there three new icons on my desktop? What is this bullshit in the tray?

    What the fuck is nvidiaupdatechecker.exe and why is is consuming 10% of my cpu?

  • DLSchichtl@lemmy.world
    26·
    9 months ago

    Lot of confirmation bias on both sides in this thread.

    Linux, you need to streamline that shit

    Windows, you need to stop being windows.

    • qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.org
      21·
      9 months ago

      streamline that shit

      Or mainline that shit — for me, “true” Linux support means drivers are in the mainline kernel, and will Just Work. Not sure I’ve ever had problems with drivers for an RS232 dongle on Linux, but I definitely have under Windows.

  • bioemerl@kbin.social
    181·
    9 months ago

    No, that’s about how it is on Linux.

    Some drivers just work. Others? Absolute pain in the ass. If it doesn’t work on first boot you’re probably screwed.

    Source: my laptops audio still doesn’t work with Linux.

      • AnonTwo@kbin.social
        3·
        9 months ago

        It looks like the OP was trying to shorthand (not show entirely)
        ->Just updating Ubtuntu to see if it fixes the issue
        ->cloning a github repo and then trying to build a driver themselves
        ->Checking with modprobe to see if it worked (I don’t remember the command clearly, I’ve only actually done this once like 2 years ago)

        The syntax error at the end is probably more for dramatic effect and would’ve occurred when trying to make the repo. But at the bare minimum using Apt to update->upgrade your distro would update a driver if it was already installed and just outdated.

      • bioemerl@kbin.social
        1·
        9 months ago

        Intel something or other. I had it working at one point but it broke again shortly after, some update unset some settings or something.

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
    13·
    9 months ago

    I don’t remember the last time I had to manually install a driver on Linux.

    But I do remember the last time I had to manually install a driver on Windows. I had to revert the change in safe mode, because it wouldn’t boot after the install. To be fair to Windows, it was an old PS/2 to USB adaptor. To be fair to the adaptor, it was plug-and-play on OpenSuse, Mint, and Fedora.

    Edit: it was Win10 21H1, I believe.

  • SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    9·
    9 months ago

    I had Windows literally delete my graphics drivers because it decided to download “new” ones (read: the default fallback driver) and made me unable to play anything. And when I went through the trouble of figuring out how to get AMD’s software center to redownload it, Windows did it again.

    On an unrelated note, that happened on my second-to-last day of using Windows.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    9 months ago

    Hahahahahahahaha hell no My Nvidia experience on windows required me to setup a whole ass nvidia account just to get access to the crappy nvidia software to install the drivers

    My Nvidia experience on fedora was sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia

    Not to mention the utterly useless auto driver install from windows which would either:

    • fail to find drivers meaning I had to go search for them on google
    • download the driver release from 2 years ago
    • use some generic Microsoft driver (goto option 1)
    • overwrite my manually installed latest driver (goto option 1)
  • AVincentInSpace@pawb.social
    4·
    9 months ago

    oh, don’t mind me, i’m just over here using my graphics tablet that linux came with drivers for and which worked out of the box (including pressure sensing) as soon as i plugged it in, and printing on my printer which CUPS auto-detected and went from new laptop to printing in 30 seconds, and which i have never had any issues with