Posts: 1387 from 2003/2/15
From: Central Europe
Quote:
Intuition wrote:
Report back on which one was easiest, which was quickest and which one you needed to go to several websites to download drivers just so your hardware functions correctly. :)
Have you actually tested this yourself? Windows 10 downloads optional drivers for a vast pool of hardware components fully automatically.
I upgraded an 11 years old Vista laptop earlier this year and every single component was detected and had the appropriate driver installed. The OS also found a printer connected to the same network and downloaded the correct driver for it as well.
Mind you, I also ran into odd issues such as Windows 10 64bit not supporting hardware that happily runs the 64bit edition of Windows 7 due to an obscure CPU feature that is missing from a number of Intel´s older generation low-voltage mobile CPUs. But still, I would not argue that any niche operating system could possibly provide better hardware compatibility overall.
