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by RandomInteger4 2367 days ago
I built a new computer and for the first time in over a decade I wanted to try Windows, but apparently I was missing drivers for something. It never told me what I needed drivers for, and even with all the drivers for all the parts I could find on a separate USB drive, it couldn't find the drivers that I supposedly needed, so I gave up and chose to install Ubuntu instead.

Ubuntu apparently knew all the drivers I needed, fetched them from beyond the great ether, and all was in harmony.

Why is this so easy for Canonical, but not Microsoft?