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SmellyGeekBoy
on Sept 12, 2018
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Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installatio...
Right, except my Windows 98 drivers don't work with Windows 10 either... What's the point?
AnIdiotOnTheNet
on Sept 12, 2018
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The point is that your Windows 10 drivers from a year ago still work with the Windows 10 update you did today. This is not true of Linux driver binaries.
majewsky
on Sept 13, 2018
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Yes, but that's also the reason why Linux has as much hardware support out of the box: because it forces drivers to be developed in-tree.
scarface74
on Sept 13, 2018
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Windows doesn’t actually come with a dirth of drivers out of the box and it keeps backward compatibility with drivers longer.
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