I guess, all depends on what type of driver you’re installing; but I had to install win10 on my brother’s PC last week, these are the steps I had to take to install AMD’s drivers (because the ones included with windows suck):
- Open Edge.
- Download Opera (his browser of choice) and install it.
- Google “AMD Drivers”, go to the website
- Lookup the exact model of the processor: “Ryzen 3 3200G”.
- Try to guess what fucking .exe file to download, since their descriptions are vague.
- Double click the .exe.
- next, deselect bloatware, next, install.
- Error on installation
- Lookup error code.
- Turns out Windows was downloading (not installing) an update at the same time, without telling me.
- Wait 15 minutes for windows to finish doing whatever it wants to do, without user consent.
- Reboot machine.
- Try again. Next, next, deselect bloatware, next, install
- Reboot machine again.
- (OPTIONAL) Curse Bill Gates, Steve Balmer and Satya Nadella for making me waste my time.
I just saw “VLC Plus Player” on a Windows smartboard in school yesterday. It’s malware. Made possible by the installer design of Windows.
Installing Windows in general to a usable state is a 1+h job for me.
- Download ISO (No Torrents, so it takes a few minutes)
- Let Rufus patch it (local account etc.)
- Boot from stick
- Complete the first setup
- Reboot and hope Rufus patched the acc creation alright
- Waste 2 minutes on disabling Cortana and Clicking No and Continue everywhere, of course manually with a mouse
- Finally boot
- Remove everything from the task bar, start menu and desktop
- Uninstall everything possible
- Spend 10 minutes to manually get the firefox installer without using Edge which would cost another 10 minutes of useless setup and privacy nightmare
- Use the registry to enable dark mode (Because I’m not paying even 10€ for basic functionality)
- (OPTIONAL) Pause the VM and save it, because I’m definitely not using Windows on a real machine. If at all I use it only because there’s alternative Linux software for my Keyboard, Mouse and Headset
I have a w10 PC and an Nvidia card. You install NVidia GeForce Experience and click “download”, then “install”.
For AMD, you would install AMD Catalyst and do the same.
No bloatware for either… don’t do things the hard way!
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Wait, why the fuck are there three new icons on my desktop? What is this bullshit in the tray?
What the fuck is nvidiaupdatechecker.exe and why is is consuming 10% of my cpu?
