I don’t remember the last time I had to manually install a driver on Linux.
But I do remember the last time I had to manually install a driver on Windows. I had to revert the change in safe mode, because it wouldn’t boot after the install. To be fair to Windows, it was an old PS/2 to USB adaptor. To be fair to the adaptor, it was plug-and-play on OpenSuse, Mint, and Fedora.
Edit: it was Win10 21H1, I believe.
I’m impressed they got it wrong for both platforms
My arch install: sudo pacman -Syu Windows: search for the driver, install it, get 3 pieces of additional bloatware. Device works now but is buggy.
I guess I’m cursed though because both my windows and arch are always acting up…
No, that’s about how it is on Linux.
Some drivers just work. Others? Absolute pain in the ass. If it doesn’t work on first boot you’re probably screwed.
Source: my laptops audio still doesn’t work with Linux.
None of those commands install drivers on linux tho. What audio driver couldn’t you install?
It looks like the OP was trying to shorthand (not show entirely)
->Just updating Ubtuntu to see if it fixes the issue
->cloning a github repo and then trying to build a driver themselves
->Checking with modprobe to see if it worked (I don’t remember the command clearly, I’ve only actually done this once like 2 years ago)The syntax error at the end is probably more for dramatic effect and would’ve occurred when trying to make the repo. But at the bare minimum using Apt to update->upgrade your distro would update a driver if it was already installed and just outdated.
You’re missing the SOF Firmware. Trust me on this one.
What audio chip do you have?
I had Windows literally delete my graphics drivers because it decided to download “new” ones (read: the default fallback driver) and made me unable to play anything. And when I went through the trouble of figuring out how to get AMD’s software center to redownload it, Windows did it again.
On an unrelated note, that happened on my second-to-last day of using Windows.
I rarely have to install a driver on either one. They both come with or auto install.
Windows: “driver for graphics card not found. Go fuck yourself.”
Fuck it, here’s an ad.
What card?? I’ve literally never seen this in 20-30 years.
Most cards are made with Windows in mind first and foremost.
Actually, I got an error “Cannot install Windows, missing (graphics) drivers”. Debian Live did boot without any problem, though.
Never happens. I’ve never had a video card fail to work with Windows right away.
I believe I am mistaken, yes. I had a cpu fail, and never got it to work, no matter what I did.
yeah graphics driver support on windows is notoriously far worse than on the tertiary afterthought that is linux
u mad?
no, but i think anybody that spends their time seething about what pcmasterrace is up to very clearly is
Hahahahahahahaha hell no My Nvidia experience on windows required me to setup a whole ass nvidia account just to get access to the crappy nvidia software to install the drivers
My Nvidia experience on fedora was
sudo dnf install akmod-nvidiaNot to mention the utterly useless auto driver install from windows which would either:
- fail to find drivers meaning I had to go search for them on google
- download the driver release from 2 years ago
- use some generic Microsoft driver (goto option 1)
- overwrite my manually installed latest driver (goto option 1)
oh, don’t mind me, i’m just over here using my graphics tablet that linux came with drivers for and which worked out of the box (including pressure sensing) as soon as i plugged it in, and printing on my printer which CUPS auto-detected and went from new laptop to printing in 30 seconds, and which i have never had any issues with
I guess, all depends on what type of driver you’re installing; but I had to install win10 on my brother’s PC last week, these are the steps I had to take to install AMD’s drivers (because the ones included with windows suck):
- Open Edge.
- Download Opera (his browser of choice) and install it.
- Google “AMD Drivers”, go to the website
- Lookup the exact model of the processor: “Ryzen 3 3200G”.
- Try to guess what fucking .exe file to download, since their descriptions are vague.
- Double click the .exe.
- next, deselect bloatware, next, install.
- Error on installation
- Lookup error code.
- Turns out Windows was downloading (not installing) an update at the same time, without telling me.
- Wait 15 minutes for windows to finish doing whatever it wants to do, without user consent.
- Reboot machine.
- Try again. Next, next, deselect bloatware, next, install
- Reboot machine again.
- (OPTIONAL) Curse Bill Gates, Steve Balmer and Satya Nadella for making me waste my time.
I have a w10 PC and an Nvidia card. You install NVidia GeForce Experience and click “download”, then “install”.
For AMD, you would install AMD Catalyst and do the same.
No bloatware for either… don’t do things the hard way!
nVidia drivers also contain on-by-default telemetry you just installed willingly.
If you’re concerned with it, then you have an issue. If you’re not, you don’t.
I can say this about literally anything. You bought a new car, but it requires you to send nudes to the automobile company owner to be able to start the car? If you’re concerned with it, then you have an issue. If you’re not, you don’t.
Glass houses and all that.
Next next finish
Wait, why the fuck are there three new icons on my desktop? What is this bullshit in the tray?
What the fuck is nvidiaupdatechecker.exe and why is is consuming 10% of my cpu?
open terminal ↑ maybe a couple times… password enter
Windows is more like
Run exe
Next
No don’t install chrome
No don’t install antivirus
No don’t install toolbar
Yes I read the agreement
Install
