>that was kinda the point of them doing it
Well, I think the point was more a rebrand to distance themselves from the damaged IE brand. Which was explicitly stated as the point in that leaked memo I can no longer find.
There's definitely some old windows code still kicking around in there. I just manually installed my printer driver, when I clicked Have Disk it /still/ Fucking defaults to A:/
:'D
Them were the days when installing a driver it would hang for a while trying to access the floppy drive when there was no disk in it.
And the noise! That beautiful grinding noise!
:D
<vaguely remembers 'drivers'>
Whilst *nix does generally have good support for a lot of hardware, the times it doesn't can be a total nightmare.
Having to compile drivers and modules, then forget when you upgrade the kernel that it breaks everything and you have to do it all again :C
Man, you need to try harder at trolling. Linux still has drivers, i.e. a program that provides a software interface to your hardware. Whether you have them as pre-compiled binaries that you install or source code you compile into the kernel or into a module, you still have them :/
DKMS does a lot of that automagically.
Yeah, when stuff's not supported it's fucking horrible. Though I've not encountered that for a *long* time. I think pretty much everything remotely mainstream is covered by the kernel these days (with the exception of trackpads, which are like the new wifi cards).
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