Do people really say this? I’ve literally never had to manually install drivers on Linux. Almost everything is built in to the kernel except NVIDIA drivers, which every distribution I’ve used has an option for in the installer.

Meanwhile, I’ve frequently had to go to a website to download and install drivers on Windows. And then it’s a dice roll if that “driver” trojans an entire suite of bloatware onto your machine.

I play FF XIV on a gaming laptop with a n onboard Nvidia GPU. The only thing I had to install was the game, and the Flatpak, Proton, and XIV Launcher communities have made that trivial.

I use Debian stable.

The only driver I need is the proprietary NVidia drivers, but you need to do it on Windows as well so… Eh

Funny though, I only had to install drivers manually on Windows for years now, but not on the various Linux systems I manage.

Most problematic devices which not have firmware inside them to work so old printers before 2015 I guess and scanners is trash cause they use their own proprietary protocol ,WiFi adapters generally works but exception exist

But fr fuck Nvidia. Two different distros (Ubuntu/fedora) and couldn’t use a Nvidia gpu as primary display.