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Yeah, Windows is hit or miss with regards to obeying the driver update settings. Though, the policy setting is almost always obeyed. It’d be less annoying if WU would actually update intelligently instead of “updating” a user installed driver to an older version in the WU Update Catalogue 😛

On Linux, you can downgrade any package (kernel, drivers, and more) as long as a previous version is available. It doesn’t even need to be in the repo or the cache. Linux allows you to install packages from RPMs, DEBs, etc that you download yourself and register it to the package manager. Not always recommended as it can cause conflicts but you can still do it. For the occasions where you want to override the version requirements, some package managers have an option to force the install. The downgrade feature is quite handy. I’ve used it on Fedora fifteen years ago when an update to the HAL package kept breaking my keyboard. The bug was fixed in a distro update so it was probably an ABI change as the version number was still the same.