On my Job I regularly have to install Windows PCs and sometimes even install the USB Drivers for Mouse and Keyboard to work. Why dont I have to do that on Linux ever? Seems weird not to have them installed on Windows.

  • fjordbasa@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    You’ve probably figured this by now, OP, but the computers at your job are weird. Needing to install USB drivers for mouse and keyboard to work is not normal behavior for Windows. Like another person commented- check the BIOS settings.

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      5 months ago

      Yea for mouse and keyboards that is very weird, the only times I had to do this when I was using adb for my google pixel

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      5 months ago

      Windows ME didn’t have the ability to automatically install USB drivers and it was fucking bullshit even back then.

      You can’t install a flash drive driver if you need the flash drive in order to transfer the driver to the computer, everything is always 0.1mb too large for a floppy drive so CD has to be burned which is clunky and stupid and time consuming.

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      5 months ago

      Only not normal behaviour for a pre installed system. Windows out of the box install often requires chipset drivers installing for all but usb1.1 speeds as well as drivers for many 3rd party peripherals.