[jeffbee]

I don't think the Windows model is all that great either. Windows 10 flat out refuses to install on an Intel NUC, which is about the most bog-standard "WinTel" machine you could imagine. Windows appears to work because vendors are motivated to integrate their drivers properly, and because running privileged driver installers from fly-by-night software vendors is socially acceptable in the Windows community.

[ocdtrekkie]

> Windows 10 flat out refuses to install on an Intel NUC

I am really curious about this claim, because I've installed Windows 10 on multiple Intel NUCs without any sort of issues. They've very well supported.

The only particular peeve I know of is that you can't install Windows Server 2016/2019 on an Intel NUC and use it's built-in Ethernet port, because Intel decided to disable allowing drivers for "consumer" Ethernet chips (like the one in most NUCs) to install on a server OS.

[jeffbee]

On mine it just whines that there's no mass storage device. The stack overflow responses to this problem indicate that the trick it to pull out the usb install media at just the right moment, and then return it to a different port at just the right moment. I think this advice perfectly clarifies the claim the Windows "just works" on any randomly selected PC of the last fifteen years.