Fucking Windows, could you please stop "updating" my fucking GPU drivers to an older version after I just updated them myself to the newest version.

You little dipshit, is a version check really that fucking hard for you?

Fucking check driver version before *installing* too, Microsoft, geez.

Let me guess the driver is not properly signed or some dev branch driver? Windows has a webservice it can ask for the newest drivers for your hardware, and replace them if they dont match. Intel notoriously distributes unsigned missmatching GPU drivers for their Arc GPUs and do not notify microsoft about the newer version, either because they do not intend for those drivers to be distributed to the general public or in some cases they plain and simply forgot.

@EdoPhoenix it sadly is an official driver from AMD (mobile ryzen apu), but winshit doesn't care.

It seems, Windows is doing version checks like poopoo-kaka websites that check browser versions by the last two digits.

@KoganeNoKenshi Here it is sometimes the other way.

AMD notices me of a new driver, wants to install it.

After trying, I get a lovely message that it cannot install the driver because there is already an install running through the windows updates.

I go check windows updates and what do I see ? No f** updates

One is lying here...

It has been some time i last configured a Windows - but if i remember correctly, you can disable automatic driver updates.

@Oktokolo I've read that there's an easy way for it if you set it over Windows Update.
But that never worked for my device, or in general... I don't really know.
Another way is to disable automatic updates for specific device IDs, but since the AMD driver package installs/updates drivers for multiple components that's not really useful.

I just love how people criticise Linux for being too complicated to set up/configure... and then there is Windows doing bullishit like this.

@Grumm that means you need to restart 99%

@KoganeNoKenshi Well, drivers are still the achilles heel of Linux though. It got a lot better, but for new hardware, Windows unsurprisingly still has the best driver support.

I use Gentoo btw.

@KoganeNoKenshi yeah the windows update team always feels like their apple employees:
Windows Update Team: "it just works"
User: "but it doesnt"
Windows Update Team: "LALALALALA CANT HEAR YOU"

@EdoPhoenix have you restarted ? You need to restart, please restart your pc.

Are you sure you restarted correctly ?