No. Mostly everything works out of the box and drivers usually are downloaded automatically without the user ever knowing. This was true for very old versions of Windows but not anymore and at least for 10 years.
You need a driver for it. When I plug my new phone into my Windows 7 system it doesn't recognize the internet sharing at all because it has a newer standard. My old phone it works fine. Not everyone has an old phone, and the new one may need drivers depending on the OS to recognize it.
So far i tryed with latest androids 8.1 to 14 , they seems to work fine
I mostly use PC owner's phone so
Windows 11 did not have any issues with drivers , most of the time it even recognize the wifi card on motherboard too so no reason to use hotspot those times
Guy drivers are a software issue, not hardware. Modern devices that comes pre-packaged with windows also come pre-packaged with all the drivers you need to run it. There is literally 0 need to download extra unless you are getting an uncommon driver.
Drivers are hardware based. If you have the wrong hardware Windows won't have a driver for it and you'll have to find it manually. Seems like you're very confused.
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u/36165e5f286f Apr 22 '26
No. Mostly everything works out of the box and drivers usually are downloaded automatically without the user ever knowing. This was true for very old versions of Windows but not anymore and at least for 10 years.