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@Mwa @NONE_dc *uninstall

@NONE_dc looks like pipewire moment :)

@Natanox @NONE_dc when i installed windows 7 beta first time, it was impossible to make my realtek audio work with it at all, all drivers failed to start...

@Zwiebel yes :(
Or use some automatic kernel update scripts.
For me, it's better if i update kernel/grub manually, than do some automatic update and find system not booting anymore. But most users prefer automatic update, which sometimes may fail on some systems

@VinesNFluff @westyvw but win9x still using dos drivers, so it is dos application. 32 bit dos application running on untouched dos system. Yes, it implements full 32 bit OS

@Breve i prefer spending couple hours to configure (and half-a-day to rebuild packages) to update my home linux system every half-a-year than using windows. And it seems, there is no windows alternative for non-IT-professionals now because every distro is broken. I still may recommend linux mint as windows alternative, but not sure it really will be better that windows because it's ubuntu based and will catch all ubuntu bugs.
Also, most binary distros build mesa with nouveau enabled, which breaks it. It links lingbm to glappi, which causes dependency hell. Also it adds some slow nouveau call to winsys implementation even if you do not have nvidia, shich causes big slowdown. And linked-in nouveau code in libgallium increases memory footprint This only should be used when you relly use nouveau, but most people replace it with binary blob or not using nvidia at all...

@Breve @_carmin this is because distros use autogenerated grub configs, and using rootfs for grub.
Whan maintaining grub manually on separate or EFI partition, nothing breaks. You only need edit grub config every kernel update. For x11,wayland, etc only solution is some source-based system (gentoo for example) where you decide what to build and what to update. In other cases expect unwanted breakage becauseyou cannot stop binary distro from bringing unwanted changes

@shuro I XP have better hardware support because it targets workstation and home systems, while 2000 mostly targets servera. And it was released 2-3 years later

@shuro it seems, support of this laptop was added after win2k release. Anyway, usually we not expect hardware to work out pf box on windows (at least before win10 which downloads drivers automaticly). Without downloading drivers it requires windows version released at least after hardware was made

@shuro supporting formats and hardware out of box never was good side of windows. But 12 years ago i used some PC which did not require installing any driver on windows 2000, EVEN TV TUNER worked out-of-box. None of linux live cd was capable to run it's sound and network card and there are no drivers for tuner and 3d acceleration on this pc. Network and sound required building some kernel modules, disabled by default

@shuro i do not think browser-based statistics is good. Anyone who do not want different from elsewhere will set windows UA and breaks this statistics. just imagine, how may bots may set windows user agent not being running on windows

@Diplomjodler3 @drq win7 is shit, really shit. It renamed "My computer" to "Computer"...