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Re:MacBook Neo by Arainach on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @06:21PM (#47343023)
Unless you have very specialized needs, the driver experience on Windows is "turn the machine on". The driver update experience is "connect to the internet" and occasionally "reboot". That's it.

Linux is significantly easier than it was 20 years ago but still not as easy in general.

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Re:MacBook Neo by pvdebbe on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @10:00PM (#47345372)
Tell me what happens if you run a Windows machine for say 12 months and decide to switch the GPU from NVIDIA to AMD (or vice versa)? Yeah.

In linux it tends to be a nonissue.

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Re:MacBook Neo by Arainach on Thursday March 12, 2026 @12:16PM (#47353104)
When is the last time you used Windows? XP? It hasn't been an issue for decades.

Graphics drivers moved out of kernel space in Windows Vista.

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Re:MacBook Neo by Certhas on Thursday March 12, 2026 @03:27AM (#47347562)
That's true if you buy a Laptop with all drivers preinstalled. But it's absolutely not true if you install on a machine you built yourself.
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Re:MacBook Neo by Arainach on Thursday March 12, 2026 @12:17PM (#47353118)
I've been building machines myself for nearly 30 years, including multiple in the last 5, and I assure you I've needed to do nothing besides connect to the internet and let it get updates each time.
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