After painstakingly installing printer drivers for a thermal printer at work I realized I still don’t truly understand what I was installing. (Bonus points if you can cover video card drivers too cause idk what drivers are In that sense either)
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Imagine if I handed you a control panel with ten buttons on it. You have no clue what these buttons do, they could control a door, activate an alarm, turn on a light, start an engine, anything. Could be for a machine, a robot, a car; anything really – but the control panel would look all the same to you. The driver is to an operating system, like a manual would be to this control panel. It gives instructions on how to control and interact with the features of the device, whether it controls a robot arm or a car or a factory machine, or in driver terms whether it controls a sound card or a video card or a network card.
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