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[–] systemglitch 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This doesn't happen in windows anymore. Over 95% of all drivers auto install.

[–] AmberPrince 7 points 10 months ago

Yeah the last time I had to install drivers for a network card on Windows was over a decade ago

[–] dfc09 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I had to install a network adapter driver the other day. Had to use my wife's computer to download into a flash drive and bring it over to my computer with zero network connectivity.

Granted, this only happened because my network card was broken.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In my old tech bin there's a bag of usb WiFi dongles and a thumb drive with all the drivers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I work in a Win-centric PC shop. USB dongle (WiFi or Ethernet adapter) is by far the best way. Virtually all drivers download automatically with rare exceptions (specifically GPU drivers or weird import components).