WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10

Re:WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10 by dralley on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @05:09PM (#22122600)

The entire problem with Nvidia's drivers is that they aren't in the kernel, and the kernel driver API/ABI isn't stable, so potentially any kernel update could break the drivers.

That's not true for AMD on Linux. The drivers are in the kernel itself so any changes made to the kernel interfaces will include changes to the drivers that use them.

It's not the case for either vendor on Windows because Windows has stable driver APIs.

Basically, if you're on Linux and your hardware has mainlined kernel support you are not likely to ever have that kind of problem.

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Re:WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10 by philliphaydon on Thursday January 23, 2020 @06:46AM (#22126764)

Thanks for the info! Appreciate it. Will definitely try out linux again.

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Re:WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10 by dralley on Monday January 27, 2020 @12:26PM (#22161545)

There is one thing to know about though.

On Windows, since the vendors control the drivers, they can ship out new hardware support immediately.

On Linux, if the driver is mainlined, it's tied to your kernel. So if you have a really new graphics card you might need a new kernel also. If your preferred distro isn't Arch or Fedora (which have very up-to-date kernels), that might also be an issue. Debian Stable for instance might not have support for a new graphics card.

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