• Leaflet@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    almost all distros include a … driver app

    Not really. Ubuntu and Mint does, but Arch, Fedora, and Debian don’t. The latter two don’t even have the drivers in their main repositories.

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      16 days ago

      Some may be included in the desktop environment. on Fedora KDE for example provides me with firmware updates for my laptop within the settings program.

      On Manjaro, I remember using a driver app for Nvidia graphics.

      At the very least, even if your distro doesn’t have a specific app or menu for firmware/drivers, you will most likely have the linux firmware repositories added to your package manager which ensures they’re updated with your system.

      For all other drivers of course we can rely on Kernel updates.