Your snark is outdated. Windows can upgrade graphics drivers without a reboot these days and even supports hotplugging GPUs to a limited extent. Meanwhile, like many others I regularly have to perform console surgery on my Linux machines when they fail to boot to X after fiddling with the graphics drivers. (My latest discovery is that Ubuntu's auto-updates will auto-destroy your NVIDIA drivers if you have an unexpected version of GCC set as default). Graphics drivers are emphatically not something Linux people should be crowing about to Windows users.
> My latest discovery is that Ubuntu's auto-updates will auto-destroy your NVIDIA drivers if you have an unexpected version of GCC set as default). Graphics drivers are emphatically not something Linux people should be crowing about to Windows users.
I have to agree. Especially when the Ubuntu package drivers ruin your system.
Yeah but do not blame Ubuntu or other distributors or Linux, but NVidia, who ship shitty proprietary drivers that do not integrate well in the *nix system.
I've had massive problems with my Nvidia gpu using anything but the open-source driver. I'm not sure how much performance I'm losing but it's worth not spending hours debugging.
