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People always making fun of Linux update for making their sound or networks drivers stopped working. While Windows update outright corrupt your bios (europe.pub)
submitted 2 weeks ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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who the fuck think it's a good idea to push bios update via windows update?, it can't even get video driver update right. Before you flaming me for using microslop windows this is my brother laptop not mine

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[–] 26 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

It's also happening in Linux through fwupd.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    In fairness, you have to specifically run that, so you know you are doing a firmware update and that you should be careful.

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  • [–] [S] -3 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    Is mainstream distros shipped it by default? cuz I never heard or have it installed

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    ubuntu ships it by default iirc. it's pretty mainstream alright.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Fedora also does iirc? I remember seeing "firmware update" on gnome software

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    It does, but anecdotally it doesn't seem super reliable. Did a full system update without knowing it was a thing and only found out when it went into BIOS and immediately said "update failed". Luckily seemed like just a checksum or some other sanity check failing, but I'm guessing I got the wrong binary for my hardware.

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