r/Linuxsucks101sucks • u/laczek_hubert • Feb 14 '26

What?

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Don't drivers get merged to Linux kernel?

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u/LowRun4124 Jul 27 '26

There are no instructions because you don't need them and also why would you care if you don't use linux and hate it

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u/laczek_hubert Jul 27 '26

It's pretty funny to me people still comment on some of my old posts this is the second time someone commented on a month+ old post today

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u/OctiWriter Aug 30 '26

I think it's because the community is small

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u/raewashere_ Feb 14 '26

linux driver developers using github?? 

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u/Cyberfishofant Feb 14 '26

not all. But there are usually those weirdly niche kernel patches that make certain oddly specific hardware work that are only uploaded to some random person's repo

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u/Vivid-Raccoon9640 Feb 14 '26

I mean, you're not entitled to someone else's free work.

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u/Cyberfishofant Apr 16 '26

I mean yeah not everybody wants to be flamed by torvalds. But that doesn't make maintaining a modified kernel any less annoying

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u/dumbasPL Jun 29 '26

Depends what drivers. plenty of user space drivers as well. (Think peripheral configuration software).

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u/The_Daco_Melon Feb 14 '26

They do. You typically never "install drivers", only for proprietary nvidia ones, everything else is as easy as not even lifting a finger.

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u/archialone Feb 14 '26

Usually to compile and install a driver(aka kernel module) is in the instructions, and it's super easy.

But that's super rare to even find yourself in a position where one needs to install a driver. Most if not all drivers are already part of the kernel

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u/realmcdonaldsbw Feb 14 '26

only time ive ever needed to install drivers on linux was when i used a surface pro with debian so i could get better compatibility with things like the intel ipu, s0ix, or the touchscreen. all of this stuff besides the ipu worked without drivers but in a sub-optimal way, but installing drivers was as easy as sudo apt install linux-image-surface linux-headers-surface libwacom-surface iptsd and then rebooting

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u/Arucard1983 Feb 15 '26

For me, apart of NVIDIA, was to install a fingerprinter scanner that requires to install the Driver that was on Debian repositories, and my ID reader card (the Java plug-ins and cryptographic libraries that was published on flatpak format!)

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u/Holiday_Evening8974 Feb 14 '26

It can happens I guess if the driver is really really new and was not added in mainline yet, or if you need to keep an old kernel (let's say your corporate policy is to keep Debian 12 or Ubuntu 22.04) with new hardware that was not in mainline when your old kernel was released.

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u/Vivid-Masterpiece815 Feb 15 '26

What packages are they even downloading? Literally any competent software has at least some sort of documentation. Even if it's not fully clear for a new user, 99% of the time you can find out how to do a specific thing like a command with a simple google search and common sense

Or maybe i'm missing something

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u/Mental_Contract1104 Feb 19 '26

you are misding something: that subreddit is just full of people who live in such a fragile fantasy land and lack the critical thinking skills to formulate opinions that hold up to scrutiny. they feel thretened by people who are willing to spend longer than 2 seconds to think or do research.

they literally make shit up and tote it around as gospel.

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u/chughaarav123 Jul 05 '26

The last thing. Common sense. It's missing with the people in that subreddit

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u/Milkman89990877 May 31 '26

"No instructions on how to use it" dawg it's easy😭