[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

The point is that your Windows 10 drivers from a year ago still work with the Windows 10 update you did today. This is not true of Linux driver binaries.

[majewsky]

Yes, but that's also the reason why Linux has as much hardware support out of the box: because it forces drivers to be developed in-tree.

[scarface74]

Windows doesn’t actually come with a dirth of drivers out of the box and it keeps backward compatibility with drivers longer.