there are a couple IDs in the device manager, if you look closely you will see where it changes, and then search the registry for that string and you will find how crazy Windows can be with USB hardware. Actually stripping out those ID’s is a huge pain. I only know because of having to make legacy hardware work for work

it was worse with USB1 and old drivers wouldn’t unload so then when you unplugged them and plugged them back in, sometimes they wouldn’t work unless you rebooted. Windows is stupid

the other OS’s don’t store the configuration in the registry, that’s the main difference

well technically… USB initialization isn’t that simple, when you change which port it’s plugged into, it’s numerated under that new memory space, so from the computers perspective, it’s a different number, it’s a different device.

document a basic set by set how to use it

make it look really good and find your coworker friends who will test it and give you feedback

documentation writing and scary shit like linux to normies goes a long way

in today’s world I think you have to get in as a Windows System admin and then change your role by demonstrating how the Linux solution would be better for whatever the priority task at hand is

but when the sound drivers get updated, it seems to make its own choices unless you disable it in the device manager

they probably have a thinkpad or a system76, so of course it always works

I lose sound so much more in Windows. I love it when it thinks an HDMI monitor is the main sound even though I never selected it and have to change it back a few times a year. (work computer)

I am not sure if anyone answered your question in a way that you were expecting so let me try

yes you will get the update but you might not know it because your config wont change, so you have to go into the theme settings and use the “default” to see the pretty

they are called “mascots” in polite company

TempleOS is the one TRUE OS