| ▲ | Kye 8 hours ago |
| The difference was the device came with a disk containing the driver for DOS and Windows. |
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| ▲ | mixmastamyk 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Not for a very long time. |
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| ▲ | Kye 35 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I don't buy a lot of hardware, but the last thing I bought (Vocaster One) came with the driver installer on a small USB mass storage volume when the device plugged in. |
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| ▲ | jacquesm 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I don't see how that is Linux' fault. |
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| ▲ | Kye 8 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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