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Doesn't Windows download the drivers and/or doesn't your vendor offer driver downloads?

(For Windows itself, you can just download the ISO from Microsoft's website and use the product key that is on the laptop during installation.)

When it comes to drivers, it's one of the reasons why I dislike Windows. I try Windows every now and then, just to see what is happening in that ecosystem. The last time I installed Windows on my NUC, it automatically got the drivers for all the hardware (nice), but with that all kinds of vendor applications that I don't want, some Realtek nonsense and some Intel GPU application.

I was quite surprised by that. On Linux or macOS, I driver is just something that you load into the kernel, but it would never come with applications that I most likely I don't need. The system felt... polluted?