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Mandatory "always install a clean version, don't use a distro from your vendor".

If you take an OEM/RTL/GVLK .iso and just install it on anything with a decent SSD/NVMe drive than it would work fine. Bay Trail Atoms with 2GB RAM definitely took a hit after being updated to Win10 (well old one, like 15xx, not a modern one) but were still usable, the biggest trouble were atrocious eMMC drives, not the CPU or RAM.




To be fair, this is no longer true. Windows will recognise your hardware (with some help from UFEI from OEM) and install OEM drivers automatically.

Companies such as HP have abused this by installing all kind of crap including "analytics" as drivers.


> install OEM drivers automatically

Just like it did all the time. It was called Windows Update.

Now the real problem is what there are:

a) drivers with a their own Electron control panel for controlling... what a .cpl with a single tab would suffice

b) things what are pushed down what aren't even drivers per se. Got a bunch of shit from ASUS this way.

Though there are ways to selectively ban such 'updates', sadly not in the GUI.




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