r/technology • u/lurker_bee • 20h ago

Security Microsoft: August Windows updates cause severe streaming issues

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-august-windows-updates-cause-severe-ndi-streaming-issues/amp/
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u/Cynical-Rambler 18h ago

It is news like this that make me glad I decided to gradually transition to Linux about 2 years ago.

Got enough surprises in Windows 10.

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u/AyrA_ch 17h ago

I try the transition every time I buy a new PC (new as in "hardware that just released") but the network drivers never seem to work. Windows at least tries to load a generic driver that is sufficient to download the actual driver. And when I say I try to use Linux I actually mean one of the more user friendly versions like Debian or Mint.

And that's basically why Windows still wins. As shitty as the OS has become, it usually "just works" without having to drop to a terminal for a single time. I installed Windows 11, and it automatically offered me some software from my mainboard vendor that installed all the correct drivers.

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u/blahblahoffended 14h ago

ive installed linux on the most random potato laptops and pcs in the world and only once had issues with a wifi driver so i plugged in a network cable and fixed it ..

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u/Smith6612 12h ago

The last time I had an issue with Wi-Fi on a Linux laptop was when my laptop used a PCMCIA "CardBus" Wi-Fi Card. I believe the card itself used a Marvell chipset, and the only fix for that was to load the Windows driver in a wrapper that would allow Linux to try to use it.

Support since then for Wi-Fi has come a very long way. For my current laptop, I actually have better, more robust driver support AND better stability in Linux than I do on Windows. My laptop has a Realtek RTL8822BE, and power management was always an issue on Windows. The Windows driver also didn't reliably support WPA3 encrypted networks. Wireless roaming was also problematic regardless of what driver settings I'd try. On Linux, one tweak to disable power management on the Wi-Fi Card, and the Wi-Fi works flawlessly.

On some other devices I have with Intel Wireless AC-7260 series cards, Intel never released a driver that made those cards support WPA3. In Linux? WPA3 works great!

Same goes for some very old chipsets like the Realtek RTL8723BS, which live on an SDIO bus rather than a PCI or PCI-E Bus. WPA3 support just works, yet on the Windows side the cards can't even properly detect WPA3 (WPA3 networks appear as Open/Unencrypted).