| ▲ | mixmastamyk 20 hours ago |
| Windows has also needed external drivers installed at times, since the DOS days. It's the nature of obscure, new, or advanced hardware. |
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| ▲ | Kye 3 hours ago | parent [-] |
| The difference was the device came with a disk containing the driver for DOS and Windows. |
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| ▲ | jacquesm 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I don't see how that is Linux' fault. | | |
| ▲ | Kye 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I didn't say it was. This discussion is about relative difficulty of setting things up. It is, objectively, more difficult when you need to download a driver for new hardware and the NIC on your laptop needs a driver your distro didn't come with. |
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