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Why does it it take a long time to install drivers on linux mint then i did on windows(USER WAS WARNED FOR THIS POST, Please elaborate in your opening post in future, please provide a summary of why you asked the question you did and your own answers to the that question. You should always elaborate on your opinions rather than just spilling the soykaf.)

>>17625 >Why does it it take a long time to install drivers on linux mint then i did on windows Because Windows is one OS with a fairly stable kernel ABI. The vendors compile their drivers once for each supported Windows version (10, 8, 7 etc.) and maybe again when there is a major update but that's it. You download the driver an install. Linux on the other hand has a myriad of different distributions (each distro downloads the source from kernel.org and compiles their own unique kernel binaries) and nobody cares about kernel ABI stability because basically everything is open source anyway. So Linux drivers can't be shipped prebuilt (except with a few corporate ecosystems like Red Hat) That means parts of the proprietary driver is shipped to you in source form and needs to be compiled specifically for your system and then recompiled everytime you update your kernel. That's probably why the install takes noticeably longer.

>>17625 >Why does it it take a long time to install drivers on linux mint then i did on windows You are not installing them, you are trying to read a gigantic binary file. To install drivers from .run files, allow them to be executable and do ./file.run on a terminal. Amd drivers should be already installed for newer cards tho, and proprietary drivers can be found on PPAs for ubuntu