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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At the very simplest, think of a computer driver like it’s namesake – driver of a taxi. You (the operating system) know exactly what you want to do and where you want to go so you tell the driver. The car may be automatic, may be stick, may be pedal driven, but you don’t need to know. You and the driver can talk to each other and the driver knows _how_ to take what you’ve asked for and can drive the taxi for you.
You can jump in any form of taxi, rickshaw, horse driven fancy carriage – yell ‘follow that car’ and still find yourself masterfully following that suspect despite having no idea yourself or which pedal to push, or mystical horse command
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