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Microsoft pushes windows 11 ads into windows 10 (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 2 months ago by yokonzo@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I love how people keep claiming this whilst in reality most of the time, most of the hardware is so supported out of the box that you literally forget that something like a driver is even needed. Linux supports a metric frack tonne of hardware right out of the box, contrary to windows.

That goes without saying that installing most distros of Linux takes a good 20 minutes where as my last windows 11 install tool 7 hours split over various days (ok the exact same computer) to figure out all the issues and get it to work properly

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"people keep claiming this but it's not true!"

Fucking hell buddy, I'm running Mint 22, that was released in late July, that means I'm talking about my own experience from less than a month ago. Bazzite was shitting the bed for my GPU with no one having experienced the same thing (display signal cutting off whenever there was a load on the GPU) and on Mint my wifi usb adapter that is supposed to work out of the box as of kernel 6.2 (from February... Last year!) would drop connection after 5 minutes if it worked at all after waking from suspend.

In the end I had to install a homebrewed driver and block the one used by default. You know when I don't have to do any of that? When I install Windows. You know how you create safety issues? By getting people used to installing random stuff from the internet to get their computer working.

If it took you 7h to install Windows then honestly you were doing something wrong.