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Re:The Day Windows Died by Gordonjcp on Monday April 03, 2023 @03:34AM (#35419820)
None of those have been a thing for 20 years.

Linux just works, straight out of the box, with pretty much any sane hardware.

Have you ever tried to get anything as outré as a USB keyboard, or USB memory stick, or heaven help you, a USB serial port working in Windows?

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Re:The Day Windows Died by vetinari on Monday April 03, 2023 @04:45AM (#35420415)
> USB serial port working in Windows

The whole FTDI hoopla happened only because FTDI serial driver was the only one shipped with Windows, so only one that was really plug and play.

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Re:The Day Windows Died by Gordonjcp on Monday April 03, 2023 @01:14PM (#35427591)
It's not even FTDI, it's any of them.

And if you plug it into a different socket, it has to go on the Internet to find the driver all over again.

Janky.

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