I guess, all depends on what type of driver you’re installing; but I had to install win10 on my brother’s PC last week, these are the steps I had to take to install AMD’s drivers (because the ones included with windows suck):
Open Edge.
Download Opera (his browser of choice) and install it.
Google “AMD Drivers”, go to the website
Lookup the exact model of the processor: “Ryzen 3 3200G”.
Try to guess what fucking .exe file to download, since their descriptions are vague.
Double click the .exe.
next, deselect bloatware, next, install.
Error on installation
Lookup error code.
Turns out Windows was downloading (not installing) an update at the same time, without telling me.
Wait 15 minutes for windows to finish doing whatever it wants to do, without user consent.
I don’t know why it’s become a stigma that installing things on Linux is hard when Windows requires you to Google sketchy .exes and .msis because their app store is so trash. For 99% of packages on Linux you can just open the software manager and click install.
Because Windows doesn’t require you to google sketchy .exes and .msis…
Unless you just consider them inherently sketchy, but can’t really do anything about that. Hell the backlash for the store was mainly because people wanted to keep using .exes’s.
I’m gonna get hate, but I much prefer the independent distribution of exe files over package managers. I’ve still yet to have a good experience with a package manager. Almost all end up with outdated versions of software. My discord broke for a full day because the central arch repo hadn’t updated yet.
I guess, all depends on what type of driver you’re installing; but I had to install win10 on my brother’s PC last week, these are the steps I had to take to install AMD’s drivers (because the ones included with windows suck):
I don’t know why it’s become a stigma that installing things on Linux is hard when Windows requires you to Google sketchy .exes and .msis because their app store is so trash. For 99% of packages on Linux you can just open the software manager and click install.
Because Windows doesn’t require you to google sketchy .exes and .msis…
Unless you just consider them inherently sketchy, but can’t really do anything about that. Hell the backlash for the store was mainly because people wanted to keep using .exes’s.
I’m gonna get hate, but I much prefer the independent distribution of exe files over package managers. I’ve still yet to have a good experience with a package manager. Almost all end up with outdated versions of software. My discord broke for a full day because the central arch repo hadn’t updated yet.
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I. Fucking. LOATHE Windows updates and the shenanigans they cause. Flames of hate!
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well, GeForce Experience IS bloatware IMO, so… I’m screwed that way, I guess.
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Don’t even need GeForceExperience. You can download the driver installation exe directly from Nvidia without installing the bloatware.