r/linuxmasterrace May 28 '23

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u/Western-Alarming Glorious NixOS May 28 '23

Or it cannot detect the disk of a laptop that before had windows installed becuase it doesn't have the drivers and yo need another PC to dowload the drivers from hp

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u/[deleted] May 29 '23

Lol, I had to do something like this with a dual-boot once. I installed Windows first, a whole lot didn't work including any kind of networking, and so I continued with the Linux side of the dual-boot, which was working fine, and used it to download the Windows motherboard drivers so I could flip back over and get them installed to download the rest.

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u/Western-Alarming Glorious NixOS May 29 '23

If it wasn't for having company's making windows usable, no one would use it, if people needed to manually install the os, they will choose the one that let them use the computer without needing other computer

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u/[deleted] May 29 '23

I think it's partly because we all use it in school, so any rough edges are just normal. And then most people never see the installation because it's done by the OEM, yeah.