Maybe I am unlucky but I tried different adapters. The Apple ethernet adapter is not even plug and play on windows and requires a reboot. But even USB adapters take a while for drivers to load then I had all sort of problems: the connection regularly being recognised as 100Mbit when it should be gigabit or the USB adapter not being recognised after a couple of unplugging without a reboot.
Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
by X-Istence on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @07:50PM
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The Apple Thunderbolt Ethernet Adapter is basically a PCIe devices over Thunderbolt. Unless your OS has hot plug PCIe, it's going to require a reboot.
Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
by vardump on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @02:25AM
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At least Windows and Linux have supported hot plug PCIe for ages.
Although hardware PCIe slot register must support the optional presence detect bits. Also slot capabilities register must report optional hotplug support and surprise removal support.
I guess thunderbolt has those features supported by default.
Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
by tracker1 on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @09:18PM
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IIRC, the apple thunderbolt ethernet adapter violates thunderbolt spec and relies on the adapter specific driver for hot-plug when it's supposed to be a generic interface... this is a problem in other OSes running on mac hardware even.
I suspect that is part of the problem. The plug is just so big - though IMO Thunderbolt and USB adapters work OK. Realise not everyone thinks this way, though.
> But the main problem of USB adapters is that they don't like being unplugged and plugged back which happens quite frequently
? That's basically what they're designed for.