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I have recently bought a new ASUS s510ua notebook. I am trying to install windows 7 on it. Sadly, ASUS only provides drivers for windows 10. My touchpad does not work in the installation page and I do not believe that I will be able to get to work. I have tested the Ubuntu on my notebook without installing it and the touchpad works perfectly. I have already changed the bios settings to get my windows 7 to boot. I would obviously prefer to have Ubuntu as my main operating system but I need visual studio for school, which is quite intensive on my ram so if I had to run windows 7 in an operating system I am afraid that I will not have enough ram. In addition, the reason why I prefer windows 7 is that it does not spy on me as much as windows 10. However, I had a brilliant idea what if I could get the Linux code for the driver and convert it to make it compatible with windows 7. What can I do to convert a Linux driver to windows and is it possible? Where do I start?










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  • "This is not about Ubuntu. Questions about other Linux distributions can be asked on Unix & Linux, those about Windows on Super User, those about Apple products on Ask Different and generic programming questions on Stack Overflow." – Charles Green, karel, guiverc, George Udosen, Florian Diesch

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    I think you would be a lot better off, looking for appropriate windows drivers
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    I suppose you could put pontoons on a bicycle, but it's still not a floatplane, and it still won't fly. Your starting point would be the code for the Linux driver...but if you understood that code, and where to get it, and HOW to convert it, then you wouldn't need Visual Studio (nor school) at all. Linux drivers are NOT tweaked versions of Windows drivers. They are usually wholly different
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I have recently bought a new ASUS s510ua notebook. I am trying to install windows 7 on it. Sadly, ASUS only provides drivers for windows 10. My touchpad does not work in the installation page and I do not believe that I will be able to get to work. I have tested the Ubuntu on my notebook without installing it and the touchpad works perfectly. I have already changed the bios settings to get my windows 7 to boot. I would obviously prefer to have Ubuntu as my main operating system but I need visual studio for school, which is quite intensive on my ram so if I had to run windows 7 in an operating system I am afraid that I will not have enough ram. In addition, the reason why I prefer windows 7 is that it does not spy on me as much as windows 10. However, I had a brilliant idea what if I could get the Linux code for the driver and convert it to make it compatible with windows 7. What can I do to convert a Linux driver to windows and is it possible? Where do I start?










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put on hold as off-topic by Charles Green, karel, guiverc, George Udosen, Florian Diesch 2 days ago


This question appears to be off-topic. The users who voted to close gave this specific reason:


  • "This is not about Ubuntu. Questions about other Linux distributions can be asked on Unix & Linux, those about Windows on Super User, those about Apple products on Ask Different and generic programming questions on Stack Overflow." – Charles Green, karel, guiverc, George Udosen, Florian Diesch

If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.









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    I think you would be a lot better off, looking for appropriate windows drivers
    – Charles Green
    2 days ago






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    I suppose you could put pontoons on a bicycle, but it's still not a floatplane, and it still won't fly. Your starting point would be the code for the Linux driver...but if you understood that code, and where to get it, and HOW to convert it, then you wouldn't need Visual Studio (nor school) at all. Linux drivers are NOT tweaked versions of Windows drivers. They are usually wholly different
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I have recently bought a new ASUS s510ua notebook. I am trying to install windows 7 on it. Sadly, ASUS only provides drivers for windows 10. My touchpad does not work in the installation page and I do not believe that I will be able to get to work. I have tested the Ubuntu on my notebook without installing it and the touchpad works perfectly. I have already changed the bios settings to get my windows 7 to boot. I would obviously prefer to have Ubuntu as my main operating system but I need visual studio for school, which is quite intensive on my ram so if I had to run windows 7 in an operating system I am afraid that I will not have enough ram. In addition, the reason why I prefer windows 7 is that it does not spy on me as much as windows 10. However, I had a brilliant idea what if I could get the Linux code for the driver and convert it to make it compatible with windows 7. What can I do to convert a Linux driver to windows and is it possible? Where do I start?










share|improve this question













I have recently bought a new ASUS s510ua notebook. I am trying to install windows 7 on it. Sadly, ASUS only provides drivers for windows 10. My touchpad does not work in the installation page and I do not believe that I will be able to get to work. I have tested the Ubuntu on my notebook without installing it and the touchpad works perfectly. I have already changed the bios settings to get my windows 7 to boot. I would obviously prefer to have Ubuntu as my main operating system but I need visual studio for school, which is quite intensive on my ram so if I had to run windows 7 in an operating system I am afraid that I will not have enough ram. In addition, the reason why I prefer windows 7 is that it does not spy on me as much as windows 10. However, I had a brilliant idea what if I could get the Linux code for the driver and convert it to make it compatible with windows 7. What can I do to convert a Linux driver to windows and is it possible? Where do I start?







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put on hold as off-topic by Charles Green, karel, guiverc, George Udosen, Florian Diesch 2 days ago


This question appears to be off-topic. The users who voted to close gave this specific reason:


  • "This is not about Ubuntu. Questions about other Linux distributions can be asked on Unix & Linux, those about Windows on Super User, those about Apple products on Ask Different and generic programming questions on Stack Overflow." – Charles Green, karel, guiverc, George Udosen, Florian Diesch

If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.




put on hold as off-topic by Charles Green, karel, guiverc, George Udosen, Florian Diesch 2 days ago


This question appears to be off-topic. The users who voted to close gave this specific reason:


  • "This is not about Ubuntu. Questions about other Linux distributions can be asked on Unix & Linux, those about Windows on Super User, those about Apple products on Ask Different and generic programming questions on Stack Overflow." – Charles Green, karel, guiverc, George Udosen, Florian Diesch

If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.








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    I think you would be a lot better off, looking for appropriate windows drivers
    – Charles Green
    2 days ago






  • 2




    I suppose you could put pontoons on a bicycle, but it's still not a floatplane, and it still won't fly. Your starting point would be the code for the Linux driver...but if you understood that code, and where to get it, and HOW to convert it, then you wouldn't need Visual Studio (nor school) at all. Linux drivers are NOT tweaked versions of Windows drivers. They are usually wholly different
    – user535733
    2 days ago
















  • 1




    I think you would be a lot better off, looking for appropriate windows drivers
    – Charles Green
    2 days ago






  • 2




    I suppose you could put pontoons on a bicycle, but it's still not a floatplane, and it still won't fly. Your starting point would be the code for the Linux driver...but if you understood that code, and where to get it, and HOW to convert it, then you wouldn't need Visual Studio (nor school) at all. Linux drivers are NOT tweaked versions of Windows drivers. They are usually wholly different
    – user535733
    2 days ago










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I think you would be a lot better off, looking for appropriate windows drivers
– Charles Green
2 days ago




I think you would be a lot better off, looking for appropriate windows drivers
– Charles Green
2 days ago




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I suppose you could put pontoons on a bicycle, but it's still not a floatplane, and it still won't fly. Your starting point would be the code for the Linux driver...but if you understood that code, and where to get it, and HOW to convert it, then you wouldn't need Visual Studio (nor school) at all. Linux drivers are NOT tweaked versions of Windows drivers. They are usually wholly different
– user535733
2 days ago






I suppose you could put pontoons on a bicycle, but it's still not a floatplane, and it still won't fly. Your starting point would be the code for the Linux driver...but if you understood that code, and where to get it, and HOW to convert it, then you wouldn't need Visual Studio (nor school) at all. Linux drivers are NOT tweaked versions of Windows drivers. They are usually wholly different
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