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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Microsoft published a guide on how to install Linux. (programming.dev)

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Those are (made up) problems that might arise after you've already installed it; and I doubt Microsoft's guide says much about them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

While I agree with you, the issues described are definitely not made up. Linux tends to remove proprietary drivers on every update and the open source drivers for Nvidia still fail with a lot of hardware.

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

this only happens if you install proprietary drivers manually and not through the software center (or package manager for the cli folks) on almost every given linux distro
this is why no sane linux user recommends installing download scripts from websites, you rely instead on your package manager to handle everything

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I never installed any driver in any way other than the software center and it happened to me in every single update for several years until I finally bothered to search how to configure the update process to stop doing it (last month).

Multiple machines, distros, DEs, you name it. None of them ever not had this problem.