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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probably not the actual reason why it is called a driver, but i like to think that it is:
a driver is like an “operating manual” that the operating system uses in order to know how to communicate with a piece of hardware in order to operate, or **drive,** it.
You, as the user, tells the computer what to do, then it talks to the driver and tell it what is supposed to be happening, then the driver translates that into something that the piece of hardware will understand and know what to do with.
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