• Crozekiel@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    You had to do this with windows in 2005 too… In fact I’ve had to use a different computer to download drivers as recently as 2017 for a Windows 10 computer…

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      1 year ago

      Well, yes. I wasn’t really intending to make a comparison. I was just explaining the meme. There was a time when getting your wifi/network card going in Linux was somewhat of a hassle for many.

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      1 year ago

      Windows 10 comes with generic drivers for network capabilities preinstalled. It isn’t Windows 7 anymore.