Fortunately, this fucking windows partition I only keep for VR with my shitty Oculus Rift CV1 reminds me how fucked up the alternative is. I can't fucking wait to get a Steam Frame and ditch it.
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It‘s literally built into windows update. Installs and updates.
I am a passionate Fedora Linux user but even I have to admit that Windows does Drivers way better. Drover updates uncoupled from the kernel, sometimes possible without rebooting, proprietary drivers installed no problem.
Not when you're changing GPU vendors. It can install the drivers, sure, but not remedy the obnoxious conflict between Nvidia drivers and AMD drivers when installed in the same system.
Don't make me dig out the screenshot when I did exactly that and fucked my Linux install to the point where x11 shat the bed on boot and I had to abandon Linux until a few months ago
What conflict? I haven’t had issues like that in probably 10+ years.
Hell my one laptop has all 3 major vendors drivers installed and working simultaneously. Intel iGPU, Nvidia dGPU and AMD eGPU.
Not a "conflict" per se, but I know Nvidia drivers had an issue for years where it would waste a lot of CPU cycles if no Nvidia card was detected. I think that finally was fixed last year, though.
There are no conflicts. I run an AMD APU and Nivida GPU. Got drivers for both, zero issues. Sometimes I really wonder what you people do with your linux installs that cause so many errors.
When changing GPU vendors on Linux, you’ll likely run into some more issues as well.
Especially if you are going AMD -> Nvidia
Sure, but the comment was claiming Windows Update handles everything automatically. It doesn't, especially conflicts.
...on Linux you very rarely need to do anything driver wise so I have to strongly disagree. I think I have installed drivers for 3 devices over the past few years. If Nvidia gave a shit about Linux, the only device that gave me issues wouldn't have given me issues.
Main issue is the inconsistent drivers naturally included in Windows update and just how many things demand you install a weird vendor specific driver, with the steward of what should be a generic Winfows driver sometimes breaking things for other vendors, and/or neglecting the Windows update vintage of their driver.
Architecturally, the Windows driver model should be saner, but for most random devices I have better luck with Linux in how drivers are maintained and supported over time.
Issue as always is that vendors have zero interest in maintaining their drivers over time.
Neither releasing updates for a new OS version, nor putting them through the process to get them into windows built-in driver library.
They’ll do it grudgingly if it helps them sell more products but even that seems to be a struggle. AMD and nvidia are better than most in that regard.