shrug. I’ve been installing Windows for myself and users regularly since 3.1. I haven’t needed to specify the video card when installing since… Win2k? XP? It’s been so long I’m not sure.
Yes after installing if we want to take advantage of the card’s capability I get the native drivers, but since win10 we only bother for specialist machines.
So on this aspect I think the review has a fair point.
99% people don’t read docs until they have no other choice. It’s quite amazing to see how far out of our way we’ll go to not read docs. They’re still essential though, for when we get stuck.
(Writing tech and support docs is half of my job. The knowledge bases I’ve built over the last couple decades are prized possessions that I take with me from role to role. Thousands of support related conversations have finally beaten into me they’re only for me and a handful of like-minded souls though – and only for the domain we’re invested in. All others? In case of emergency break glass.)
Anyway, “install the thing, push first layer of visible buttons, make judgement on what thing is” is pretty standard. I’m surprised when any review goes deeper.
Cool! I didn’t know about fastfetch, thanks.
(Related; “About my system” GUI doesn’t have forged on.)
This is something I want to fix in Bluefin. Ideally there’s no separate Nvidia ISO and if we detect the card the system will fetch the missing layers during the installation and install it in one go. But that’s a dream right now.
Yeah like many things around here it’s CLI commands and prebaked things - not a lot of GUI expertise on the team.
I have had one little bit older PC, that I have wipped disks little bit too early. What is GPU??? Quicky installed Windows 11 (bad bad old habbit) and checked vendor of graphic card. Then downloaded Fedora Media Writer for Windows as recommended by Blufin docs. Run app and got some strange error, searched the web and Microsoft C++ Runtime was required (Now I appreciate flatpaks taking care of this dependecies!!!), downloaded runtime, installl and baked ISO.
Room for improvements:
no need to know GPU and seperate download
recommend app ISO writer that does not require install and separately download/install dependencies.
I think you could just have installed the regular AMD/Intel version, then rebased to NVIDIA if you had guessed wrong on the GPU. An open source driver would have been used, right?
Yeah, I agree. My desktop rig is a medium high end? workstation, and I have a 2TB nvme drive. I asked that it come without any OS installed as I wanted to run Linux, and would do that myself.
I installed Ubuntu on it to make sure everything worked as expected … no issues, Ubuntu up and running, kept it for a week to make sure there were no strange hardware incompatibility errors (just testing mostly Media and AI tools mostly.)
Since everything worked I decided to install Windows 11 for a week to see how much of a performance difference there might be.
Nah, Windows refused to recognize my nvme drive, and the Windows drivers from the manufacture didn’t seem to be recognizable for the Windows installer … so I gave up on Windows and moved on to other things.
Few days back I have fresh installed two year laptop with Windows 11 and installer did not recognize Wifi adapter and I was required to attach physical ethernet cable (I had to search for it first). Most probably the issue is when Windows installer gets created it gets frozen in time, but if you look at Blufin for example, new image is build daily/weekly and all new drivers and driver fixes can be packed into new ISO. Now it is obvious which model will work better.
That would be awesome!