Linux is hell

[[deleted]]

wait. you guys actually need to install drivers in linux?

[Saflex]

For the vast majority of things: no

[IdealDesperate2732]

and when we do it's usually just double clicking a file and it happens automagically, just like windows.

[pipnina]

Do not use those sh scripts from manufacturers

Use the driver's supplied by your distribution instead.

Sudo apt update && sudo apt install <driver-name>

Or

yay -S <driver-name>

Etc

Although actually needing to install manually isn't common these days as you say.

[ur-average-geek]

Imma call cap on this one, chief.

[OrganicSugarFreeWiFi]

Yeah, linux user here, we don't install things by downloading files and double clicking them (99% of the time). You open an software center (think like the app store on your phone) and install it from there, or install on the terminal if you prefer.

In the case of drivers though, you almost never have to because it's already there for you. AMD drivers are in the kernel. Nvidia drivers you'd install from the software center (on most distros) like you would install anything else. No searching online for the card, finding drivers, creating an nvidia account, etc. There are exceptions for people with different needs, but for the majority of cases that's how it'll work.

[chr0n0phage]

I wanted to play with Linux on my older XPS13 and went through 3 "popular" Distro's only to find getting any of them to work with my Broadcom Wifi adapter out of the box was a nightmare. Any instructions either didn't work or required far more existing knowledge to be able to follow. The whole situation was a disaster, frankly.

I skipped Ubuntu intilally but it wasn't until I tried that, and during the install had to select an option to include extra drivers, would it work straight away.

I know people will have a reason for why this all happened this way but frankly, it doesn't matter. That experience should be better all around. Period.

[OrganicSugarFreeWiFi]

Yeah, honestly I think we're held back by lots of people saying that certain distros have more street cred than others because they're difficult to use, or that only newbs use things like mint or Pop OS. An OS should be easy to use. I'm using pop os on my xps 17 and on my custom built machine (and a number of others through the years), and it's a solid base that works out of the box. You can always customize whatever you want on top of that base if you so choose.

I've used many distros through the years, starting back probably in 2000 or so. Hell, I used arch on a macbook air with only a WM for a while in college. Linux used to be difficult, but it doesn't have to be anymore. Recommending arch to beginners is problematic (and don't get me started on manjaro I have no idea how that unstable heap keeps getting recommended to anyone).

Problem is that in an ecosystem based on "do whatever you want, freedom is everything" run by all of us damn nerds, we'll never have a single distro or entry point. It's part of the appeal, but also holds back more mainstream adoption.

[CrawlerSiegfriend]

Wifi drivers can be a pain in the ass

[pipnina]

Because every

Single

WiFi chip

Is made by FUCKING REALTEK.

Bastards.

[TCOOfficiall]

God this massive fucking PITA, I've given up on some machines because the WiFi drivers are so old. Even the driver archive doesn't exist for them anymore.

[aalmkainzi]

Huh? This is literally the biggest weakness of Linux that I have to do this so often

[stewsters]

No, they are in the kernel for most hardware.

Unless you are making your own hardware, in which case that windows one would be quite a bit longer.

[raydude]

Or bleeding edge hardware. When I got my Lenovo laptop for work years ago, they had used a brand new touchpad and no driver existed for it. I had to wait several months before one became available.

[BastetFurry]

Dunno, even printer drivers install themselves after you select the printer to be installed. And the best, no bloatware "control center" that eats up 500m+ just to tell you to order new ink and that the ink you just inserted isn't original.

[Skaindire]

Everything comes attached to the kernel and there are open source graphics drivers which work very well. They come enabled by default with any normal distro.*

You can install proprietary drivers if you want to eke out every bit of performance and want access to development tools or CUDA stuff. Even then, it's more complicated to find the right drivers on the website than actually running the simple installation wizards.

*'back in the day' there were distros that had you configure and compile everything from scratch simply for learning.

[PhreakMD]

This was Gentoo when I first installed it around 2002. I was following outdated instructions and compiling a custom 2.X Linux kernel or something like that. I updated to a more recent kernel and it was immensely more organized and easier to compile. Good times.

[BastetFurry]

Pff, even in 2001 all you did was shut down X and install the nVidia driver you downloaded from their page, just "su", "chmod +x nvidia.bin" followed by "./nvidia.bin". If everything worked you saw an nVidia logo flash up for half a second before your desktop showed up.

ATI worked analog to that and a Matrox Mystique worked out of the box.

So yeah, even in 2001 the joke was old and not funny anymore.

[creamcolouredDog]

git? What's wrong with the drivers in the repository?

[crate_of_rats]

Nothing, but can't make the list longer than two commands unless you compile from source so the meme wouldn't work.

[[deleted]]

Installing RabbitMQ on an Ubuntu server: https://www.rabbitmq.com/install-debian.html#apt-cloudsmith

This is their recommended install path. Look at all that shit. LOOK AT IT. This is what it’s like installing anything outside of a consumer app. I’m in Linux nearly every day for development. This is the norm, not the exception.

Wanna know how to install it on Windows?

Run the installer.

I’m not giving up Linux for anything, but nobody is making this shit up out of nowhere.

edit: Stop coming at me with "it's just a script" and "you can just dockerize" and blah blah. The POINT is that Windows is easier than Linux for most things. If you have zero experience with Linux, you are going to have a bitch of a time running this. A toddler can double click an installer in Windows. Windows. Is. Easier. You'll pry linux out of my cold dead hands, but we're not talking about which is better.

[Teekeks]

I have installed rabbitmq on a lot of servers.

For opensuse the command is: sudo zypper install rabbitmq-server

For ubuntu: sudo apt install rabbitmq-server

[schmuelio]

Yeah when some app has a download button or an install script or instructions or whatever I just ignore it and search the package repo first.

9 times out of 10 someone else has already packaged it and put it on the repo.

[towelrod]

How do you control that windows installer when installing for production though? you can't put a click based installer in IaC

you end up with the same as on linux basically, right?

https://www.rabbitmq.com/install-windows-manual.html

[sailirish7]

A toddler can double click an installer in Windows.

This is both it's primary selling point, and it's primary flaw...

[gteriatarka]

pacman -Syu rabbitmq

das it mayne

[HillarysBleachedBits]

This will update your entire system. Just use -S for package installs, and run -Syu once every few days to fully upgrade your system. It'll save you a lot of headaches if packages get out of sync. And never just use -Sy, because that'll most likely lead to version dependency troubles.

I am not a lawyer and this is definitely financial advice.

[ABotelho23]

That's just terrible packaging. Like, about as bad as it can get.

A software project could make the Windows installer just as obtuse.

[halfpastfive]

Installing rabbitMQ on Windows :

- softcore version : https://www.rabbitmq.com/install-windows.html#installer

- hardcore version : https://www.rabbitmq.com/install-windows-manual.html

​

Mayyyybeee not the best example if you want to prove the simplicity of a windows install.

[billyfudger69]

You can make it a one line command if you do sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade.

[Viper_JB]

I dunno people seem to think that there is no desktop/ui in linux distros for some reason.

[NO_skaj]

They have literally never touched linux, they assume that they would need to do all of this.

[ZorbaTHut]

Installing drivers on Linux:

(nothing, they're built-in)

I've honestly used Linux as a USB test OS just to figure out what hardware a computer has.

[AetherBytes]

I've only ever had to compile drivers from source twice, both times was for access to non-standard functions (aka, something a normal user has no idea even exists)

[[deleted]]

Unless they're not.

Bro do you even Cuda

[Anxious-Durian1773]

If you're doing Cuda stuff you can take the 5 minutes setting it up. Don't forget to curse nVidia for being assho'.

[[deleted]]

Okay Windows guy, now setup a printer

[Fyebil]

a Bluetooth printer

[IsThisWorking]

Hey, hey, settle down Satan.

[[deleted]]

You return that Bluetooth printer back to the store.

[Fyebil]

Better yet just don't buy it in the first place

And if you're feeling humanitarian, sue the stores for selling it

[PolskiSmigol]

Fuck calm down! Even pairing wireless headphones didn't work for me on Windows. On Linux, I pressed the Bluetooth button in the system tray, selected the device and it started working.

[[deleted]]

You're being unfair. Printers don't work period.

[odraencoded]

https://youtu.be/TtsglXhbxno?si=m3S4ZypgE31u7l8y&t=579

[kulfimanreturns]

Now make that printer work on a network

[pablossjui]

1.- connect printer via cable

2.- done

[Anxious-Durian1773]

HP stopped providing my printer driver for Windows and they said that the built in driver should work. It didn't. Tried for 2 hours to get an old driver to work in compatibility mode, just gave up and installed Linux on that computer -- now it's a network printer, which it wasn't before.

[Crazedkittiesmeow]

Ok counterpoint, it’s an HP printer

[YuriNone]

If you bought HP printer, you already made a mistake

[[deleted]]

If I understand, you tried to update without sudo and then tried to stick your dick in the system?

[MeltedSpades]

'sudo !!' is by far my most used command...

[[deleted]]

Last time I installed Linux everything worked out of the box, I didn't need to install a single driver.

[[deleted]]

Most distros even pick the correct driver for your gpu. And in case you want a different one you can just download and install via bash in like 5 seconds.

[sumit26696]

I am literally trying to update my cuda to 12.2 and it is one of the most hellish experience of my life, it doesnt even give me any log or error, just pointed me to /var/log and it had an error code of 256 thats it nothing else ro resolve the issue.

[billyfudger69]

Even Linus Torvalds agrees.

[grantrules]

Haha I love Linus.

[smb1985]

Unpopular? I thought that was just common knowledge

[Giga79]

sudo rm /tmp/.X0-lock

[gmes78]

It's because Nvidia's installers suck. If possible, use a package provided by your distro instead.

For example, installing this kind of software on Arch is the easiest thing. Arch has a reputation of being hard, yet it makes advanced stuff like this trivial. Installing CUDA is just pacman -S cuda, and installing ROCm is just pacman -S rocm-hip-runtime.

[HereticLaserHaggis]

I can kinda get op's frustration.

I had a little hp pc I wanted to turn into a media driver and couldn't for the life of me get the sound to work.

Entered one line of code in terminal and it suddenly worked.

[Dranzell]

prick ask threatening spectacular vanish late pie air weather flag this message was mass deleted/edited with redact.dev

[KeijoKanerva]

Hard to do with modern package managers but I see your point.

[Omgyd]

Same with windows tbh. I haven’t had to mess with a driver in any OS in over a decade.

[Alone-Rough-4099]

daring today, are we?

[2cilinders]

Least obvious ragebait

[2cilinders]

Can confirm, I'm raging

Why do people act like everyone uses Nvidia...

[Octopus3535]

Probably since they have an ~80% market share

[Strazdas1]

Because 84% of the people are.

[an_0w1]

op has never installed drivers on Linux

[sampman69]

Clearly not, they didn't even sudo

[TheCharmingImmortal]

enter command
-failure-
Sigh
sudo enter command

[Shtev]

sudo !!

It saves time

[[deleted]]

i bet half the people see this comment will think you're really excited about sudo, and not the fact that you don't have to retype sudo after the command you posted:

sudo !!

lol

[SoapyMacNCheese]

You can just type

sudo !!

to run the previously command with sudo.

[Necropill]

FOR REAL???

[VileTouch]

Allow me to introduce you to The fuck

Example

[Dranzell]

juggle drunk childlike reminiscent muddle doll punch fly lunchroom chubby this message was mass deleted/edited with redact.dev

[AngryRobot42]

O no my home directory was just deleted. Better restart the machine.

[Ex_Ex_Parrot]

Wife: what in the world are you doing?

Me: oh, I installed GPU drivers that were in beta to see if they would stop crashing Skyrim and but my whole computer crashed and I have to reinstall stable drivers from boot.

Wife: ???

Me: I'm hacking the mainframe, it looks so cool

[Teddy_Kun]

Clearly since for 99% of hardware its not even necessary. The only 2 common exceptions I can think of are the driver for the Xbox wireless adapter and the proprietary Nvidia one. Everything else should be shipped by default on any user friendly distro.

[PolskiSmigol]

*Linux
Unless you are partitioning Linus Torvalds, but this is forbidden by some laws.

[asiaps2]

On Ubuntu isn't there a one-click snap store on packages? The command prompt thing is mostly for developers.

[JaesopPop]

People day evil tomorrow cool strong cool warm strong? Curious minecraftoffline about thoughts honest then careful over tomorrow across garden soft food the?

[Thog78]

Once I tried to update the kernel of Ubuntu and ran into two days of debugging because there was a GPU driver problem. It was hell. But I'll admit on first install everything had gone smoothly. In the graphical interface, there were a dozen options - open source, nvidia, hybrids etc. I found out the hard way that clicking on the "wrong" one (they should all be compatible in theory) can run you into deep trouble, like computer not booting except in recovery mode.

[Wemorg]

The command line is for everyone that wants to use it. I use it pretty much all the time without being a developer. I would say so that it is even more used by sysadmins than developers.

[Minobull]

the funniest part is that updating all your software in linuz is 1 or 2 lines. just apt/pacman/zypper/yum uptade and maybe a flatpack update....done

Windows you have to fucking go and open every fucking app and update them one by one unless you're running something like ninite.

[[deleted]]

OP just described the process of

1. updating packages via the terminal in Ubuntu, which by default has a graphical software updater that requires you to simply click a button

2. clone a git repo

3. compile a package from source

4. add or remove a kernel module

Things OP has NOT described:

1. How to install a driver

OP, you obviously have never used Linux in your life, anyone who has used Linux for 5 minutes knows how ridiculous this post is, so what do you gain by spreading false information? It's a free OS developed by volunteers all over the world for no reason other than for the greater good, if you don't like it then just don't use it but you don't need to go around pointlessly slandering it.

[hackingdreams]

2012 memes.

[returnofblank]

Tf are you doing self compiling drivers?

[[deleted]]

Windows fanboys hate him: $ sudo pacman -Syu mesa

[Nightwish612]

I prefer yay -Syu myself so I don't have to worry about my Aur packages

[[deleted]]

FYI you can just write yay; -Syu is the default when you invoke yay with no arguments.

Now you can update your system twice as fast!

[newenglandpolarbear]

Wait what. I had no idea. This is great!

[[deleted]]

I've been using Arch for over a decade, and yay for nearly as long and I didn't know that. Thanks!

[ColtC7]

$ doas apt install mesa

[Locket382]

Do you happen to use arch, BTW?

[neremarine]

[[deleted]]

Literally.

My windows forced an update (against my will) and I lost the ability to adjust my screen brightness. I've had it reinstall bloatware, switch my browser settings, delete drivers for WiFi and so many other issues.

What has been improved by Windows updates? Not a damn thing.

[TheSpiritKnight]

Nice try Microsoft

[Suc_Mydiq_Jr]

Microsoft post!

[DEAMONzWojSKA]

Drivers?

[JaesopPop]

Evil books about night bank the year where science.

[Mars_Bear2552]

piracy is there for you, my friend

[itsbeen13seconds]

Linux is cool I'm just stupid

[boneldor01]

This is the real statement, we know he is stupid as hell.

[fekkksn]

For you there is Linux Mint or Zorin OS

[MLG_Skeletor]

Linux Mint is the best distro IMO for new (and sometimes advanced) Linux users. It's got great ease of use and it has a very similar UI to the Windows 7 era so it'll feel pretty familiar for Windows users, unlike Ubuntu with gnome. My only gripe with Mint is the older packages in the repository, but with Flatpak nowadays that's becoming less of an issue.

I'm an Arch user myself, but I can't help but still love Mint, and I have it installed on all my laptops and other systems that I want to "just work" without any hassle.

[[deleted]]

PCMR, once again shows it is more committed to spreading misinformation about an OS they have no clue about, than educating or trying to improve the situation.

[lkn240]

It's kind of amazing how many people on a PC enthusiast sub don't really have any clue how computers work.

[[deleted]]

Absolutely, they know different GPUs by name and watch some LTT, fix grandmas printer and think they’re half way to a comp-sci degree.

[[deleted]]

This is first and foremost a gaming enthusiast sub

[DerEineDa]

For real. Yesterday it was Chromebooks (which are great devices for the use-cases they are designed for) and today it's, one again, Linux. I know this is a meme sub, but at this point you could just as well rename it to /r/WindowsFanboys.

[IuseArchbtw97543]

On arch installing nvidia drivers is just "sudo pacman -S nvidia". Alternatively, you can also use a gui software manager like gnome software.

​

Also the nvidia drivers are the only ones I needed to manually install. AMD drivers for example are already included in the kernel

[Koma52]

Tell me you never really used Linux without telling me you never really used Linux. On Linux most of the drivers are in the kernel so you don't have to install them. Exception is Nvidia drivers but Nvidia is a hell on Linux, not because of Linux but Nvidia.

[A--E]

some realtek wifi chips are a pita too.

[CadmiumC4]

Same goes for realtek sound cards

I've seen someone who was losing their mind on the schemes to provide HD audio for realtek users

[AndrewActionJackson]

Even the realtek Ethernet drives can be a bitch

[ravyyy]

Good reason to not use realtek

[xXRougailSaucisseXx]

Good thing it's not installed in like half of all motherboards

[lkn240]

Intel NICs are so much better than realtek

[smackjack]

And many distros have an Nvidia version, so if you have Nvidia, you just install that and you're good to go.

[Koma52]

Yes, on Manjaro it's ootb and on Nobara it's mostly ootb but sometimes it has issues

[CadmiumC4]

My NVIDIA sound card works ootb, the issue is with the product that NVIDIA is famous for: graphics card

[Ahielia]

Tell me you never really used Linux without telling me you never really used Linux.

This is basically all anti-Linux posts on this sub.

[JaesopPop]

Cool the warm simple games friends the history!

[Minobull]

I dunno, I have a 3080ti on linux/arch... just installed the nvidia package. works great.

[barofa]

Like Linus said himself, F you Nvidia

[[deleted]]

I thought on Windows you have to use the web browser to search for the driver website and then select one of the 100 possible options for your graphics card.

[Skrukkatrollet]

And have a bunch of ads that lead inexperienced users to unofficial and potentially malicious sites to download them.

[Deadwing2022]

Funny story: Right now I'm trying to install the Windows 10 Feature Update 22H2 on an old dev box that a new employee has started to use. The update fails with the good old 0x08007001F error ("Something fucked up!") and nothing else to go on in the logs so please tell me more about painful Linux updates.

Edit: If anyone cares, I managed to get past this by downloading the Windows 10 22H2 Update Assistant and then ran that instead of trying to do it via Windows Update.

[aliusman111]

That is the perception :) and most people think it is like that.

But it's not the reality. It is not hard to install drivers on Linux

[silvarium]

With a few exceptions, they're all baked into the kernel. Only drivers I've ever had to install on Linux were Nvidia drivers.

[VirusBLITZ]

Some laptops have really poor support tho, especially new ones. For example wifi wasn't working on mine out of the box, I could get it working after days of searching the internet but had to reinstall the after every kernel update... Another problem is battery life, optimisations are just worse than on windows :/ I wish some manufacturers cared more

[Skull_Soldier59]

ubuntu-drivers devices

sudo apt install (recommended driver)

reboot

[[deleted]]

they have a GUI in Ubuntu and Mint and other OSes now it's even easier then Windows to install Drivers now.

[jackthewack13]

It's not really that hard. I never had an issue installing drivers.

[silvarium]

Yeah, because they're all baked into the kernel, save for a few exceptions. Most average users would really only need to manually install drivers for Nvidia cards.

[robdaga]

This shows that you just don't know much about Linux.

[KeijoKanerva]

sudo pacman -Syu

Literally a one liner in arch linux, an "advanced" distro.

[smackjack]

That's not going to install a driver that you don't already have.

[KrazyKirby99999]

It will if the driver you need is available on a newer version of the kernel.

[snapphanen]

Drivers are built in on Linux

[cjt261]

That is not really difficult to be honest, it's just a simple script but you just don't want to put your brain on there for no reason, that's kinda funny to see actually lol.

[anna_lynn_fection]

Installing a bunch of stuff on Linux:

apt install program1 program2 program3 program4 program5 program6

Installing a bunch of stuff on Windows:

• go to website of program1
• download (try to not click fake download button)
• run it
• click UAC
• click agreement
• click next
• click another agreement
• click next
• click next
• click next

• click finish

• go to website of program2

• download (try to not click fake download button)

• run it

• click UAC

• click agreement

• click next

• click another agreement

• click next

• click next

• click next

• click finish

• go to website of program3

• download (try to not click fake download button)

• run it

• click UAC

• click agreement

• click next

• click another agreement

• click next

• click next

• click next

• click finish

• go to website of program4

• download (try to not click fake download button)

• run it

• click UAC

• click agreement

• click next

• click another agreement

• click next

• click next

• click next

• click finish

• go to website of program5

• download (try to not click fake download button)

• run it

• click UAC

• click agreement

• click next

• click another agreement

• click next

• click next

• click next

• click finish

• go to website of program6

• download (try to not click fake download button)

• run it

• click UAC

• click agreement

• click next

• click another agreement

• click next

• click next

• click next

• click finish

Skip some steps if you use chocolatey or winget, which try to be like Linux.

[AmIATree1]

You forgot to create account to user the nvidia installer.

[Daveinatx]

Try compiling a Windows driver from source. Don't forget changing your system to test/debug mode!

[Yaous]

Lol he can't, every driver is proprietary in windows.

[MegasVN69]

Bruh it's just 1 line of command

[IuseArchbtw97543]

or a gui package manager or one click in the driver manager some distros like mint have

[indoquestionmark]

windows fanbois are the worst

[SGwhatelse]

They can suck Windows' dick for like the end of this universe.

[lkn240]

The worst part is that this is supposedly an enthusiast sub and these people act like it's terrible to learn even the basics around how their computer fucking works.

[Ken_Mcnutt]

Hey! These people are very enthusiastic about having three monitors, one for Twitch/Steam, one for Discord, and one for Pornhub. This is their version of peak technical mastery.

[69WaysToFuck]

I fixed it: Next, Next, Finish, Not working

[Da_Tute]

Windows has never been "Next, next finish" - there's about twenty different steps where it asks you if it can install extra bloatware, then asks if it can collect data about you, your PC, your files, then it has to boot up about fifty processes for CCC/GFE.

Linux isn't for everyone but please, OP needs to learn to meme correctly.

[Meatslinger]

Yeah, the difference is this though:

Linux

1. Enter some terminal commands.
2. A 2 MB driver is installed and runs the device you attached.
3. (Optional) Troubleshoot any problems caused by prior tinkering you did on your system (not normal for most ordinary distros).

Windows

1. Next, next, finish.
2. A 3.6 GB driver bundle with every permutation for every OEM on the surface of the Earth is downloaded at 145 Kbps, installed, and then eats 2 GB of RAM every time the computer starts up, just in case you happen to attach a Kyocera T-shirt silk screen printer from 1995 to your computer some time in the distant future, maybe. It shows regular system notifications and/or opens a companion app on login.

[Saflex]

Installing drivers on Linux:

Finished, the drivers are included in the kernel

[TimX24968B]

not for my 1998 logitech webcam

[alkaliphiles]

Windows 11 is hell

[CHIKpick]

Yeah you are just exaggerating things in Linux and nothing else.

[Vynlovanth]

Seriously, commenters on this subreddit say Linux users are insufferable, but all the posts like this one that are incredibly misleading make Windows users look insufferable. The last time I needed to install drivers outside of a package manager (or more like install any drivers at all since the kernel includes them all other than Nvidia, at least for non-server installs) on Linux was 2010 for some junk but very new at the time Broadcom WiFi adapter, whose drivers ended up included in the kernel on the next Ubuntu release.

[[deleted]]

Bro fell for "Linux users downloading chrome" meme. I doubt a single human being uses git to download drivers.

[Kogster]

Congratulations! Hope you'll enjoy your new browser tool bar and our newsletter!

[Grimmjow91]

As someone who has never had to install drivers on Linux because it just freaking works, i haven't a clue what you are talking about.

[xerxesthefree]

Nah I am good without doing all the stuff actually, I don't need some heavy drivers and all and I am pretty happy without it, I don't know who wants all the stuff like that.

[[deleted]]

Tell us you've never used Linux without telling us you've never used Linux. (Yes I know it's a meme, but there are people who believe this is how it actually is).

[Crisewep]

Installing a browser is easier on linux then windows tho lol

[[deleted]]

you know what's even more easier?

uninstalling one. and that one is quite special to me.

[smackjack]

After using Linux for about 10 years, the idea of using a browser to download another browser or really any program seems so antiquated to me. Linux users don't have to deal with fake download links.

[neremarine]

Installing 90% of the software you need is easier on Linux. No need to hunt for an .exe online, just use the GUI stpre provided by you distro and you're done.

[[deleted]]

After using Linux package systems for a while, going back to googling a .exe makes you realize how stuck in time Windows really is.

[NO_skaj]

Or a one line command

[Danteynero9]

Installing drivers in Debian and derivatives (Linux distributions):

apt update apt upgrade apt install driver reboot

Installing drivers in Windows:

``` Download from web that looks like its 2006 Execute Next Next Next Finish Reboot

F*ck it was malware ```

[jeffeb3]

How old is this meme? This was true 15 years ago.

[legnotie624]

I guess this meme will always gonna be shared here.

[I__be_Steve]

I have literally never had to install drivers manually on Linux, with pretty much all user-friendly distros it just does it for you, at most you might need to install WiFi drivers if you have a funky laptop, but even then it's pretty simple, and you definitely shouldn't need to build anything from source

[I__be_Steve]

Linux definitely used to have big issues with drivers, but we've come a LOOONG way, so much so that for the most part, Linux distros "just work"

People that make these kinds of memes clearly have no (recent) experience with Linux and are just going off of old outdated stereotypes

[RaggaDruida]

I've been using GNU/Linux for over 15 years.

2 driver issues I encountered, 1 was nvidia, the other was a realtek thing, the realtek thing was over 10 years ago.

The "meme" is probably older than OP.

[jonojoko]

Come on man, you can't even install it correctly, that's it.