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extraislandlast Monday at 2:08 PM1 replyview on HN

> Anybody who is good with computers should be able to install linux

Installation is not the same as support and isn't the same as trouble shooting.

That why people distro hop. They keep on installing thinking that distro X will solve there problem. It may do, but it frequently has it own problems.

> That's what I did to export drivers from previous windows installation in suspicion of regression.

Which is unusual situation. It isn't unusual situation in Linux.


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GoblinSlayerlast Monday at 2:29 PM

>Installation is not the same as support and isn't the same as trouble shooting.

The meme is still alive that windows accumulates garbage and becomes slower with time, so you need to reinstall it periodically. Reinstallation is also how you fix regressions, because ms is busy with cloud services.

>It isn't unusual situation in Linux.

As I remember, on linux I have an ample choice of kernel versions, but I didn't encounter regressions. For windows intel provides only the latest drivers.

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