Originally posted by drSeehas
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It happened again when I went from Windows 2000 to Windows Vista. I could literally no longer use any of my peripherals except keyboard and mouse under Windows. Scanner, printer, webcam, DVB-T receiver, didn't work any longer. The printer has since received an updated driver, the other devices not.
Not strictly driver breakage, but when I wanted to upgrade from Windows 8.0 to 8.1, Microsoft had suddenly decided that CMPXCHG16b would be required on x64, which left my system totally out in the rain. Luckily, I had mostly stopped using Windows except for games at that point, so I went back to Vista which had longer security support remaining than Windows 8.0 (go figure).
The only instance when a piece of my hardware stopped being supported on a Linux upgrade was my PowerVR Kyro II, which depended on proprietary drivers that only worked with kernel 2.4 and not 2.6. I have bought only ATI/AMD graphics cards which work with open source drivers since.
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