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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I’m going to give this a shot, nbd if it gets axed.
I think of the whole drivers chain being like a limo, you’re in the back, with the operating system, telling the limo what to do by telling the literal driver. that driver takes what you told it to do, (print a picture) and operates the mechanicals, steering, gas, navigation without you having to intervene.
if there’s errors, the driver of the limo will tell you, “PC LOAD LETTER” (flat tire) and wait for the error to resolve. whether you call road service (auto troubleshooter) or change the tire yourself, the hardware refuses to budge because the driver says no.
so, the driver knows how to work steering and throttle and brakes, but that driver knows how to operate quite a few vehicles as well, sure, he wouldn’t be able to drive a bus(video vs sound vs USB drivers) without the proper training, but he can work any car conforming to a standard. VGA would be a standard akin to most passengers vehicles, there’s default drivers that know how to move the vehicle and navigate purposefully, but the nuanced controls like the radio, windows and turn signals would require a “trained”(manufacturer driver) driver to get the best out of the ride.
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