Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival

Re:Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival by IshKebab on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @11:46AM (#12173756)

That's actually stupidly hard. Why do you need to do anything at all?

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Re:Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival by Nullabillity on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @12:14PM (#12174048)

As opposed to the Windows approach (unless you enjoy being stuck with preloaded malware, such as Superfish, McAfee, or Mac OS X):

* WTF, why isn't my NIC registering? I thought we had a standard for this stuff by now.

* Download NIC drivers from secondary computer

* Put NIC drivers on a USB stick

* Install NIC drivers

* Nothing happened, turns out you found the drivers for the wrong revision of the chipset, go back to square one

* Download Nvidia drivers

* Try to install, nope, you need to find the Intel drivers first

* Download and install Intel drivers

* Install the Nvidia drivers again

* It's 2AM already, go to sleep

* You forgot to turn off Windows Update, and now you're stuck with Windows 10

* Reformat again, and start over

As opposed to:

$ sudo pacman -S nvidia bumblebee && sudo usermod -aG bumblebee $(whoami) && reboot

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Re:Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival by Ezhik on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @04:38PM (#12176329)

You are comparing a 7 year old version of Windows to a recent Linux release. Obviously Windows 7 will not have all the drivers.

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Re:Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival by pritambaral on Thursday July 28, 2016 @04:38AM (#12179090)

Windows may have been released 7 years ago, but it gets updates pretty frequently. Windows 7 has had the ability to install drivers from Windows updates for a few years now.

The linux comparison isn't recent either. That was the exact same procedure I had to do on an nVidia-stricken laptop (thankfully not mine) four years ago.

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