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.
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.
* 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