These hardware drivers are generally part of the Linux kernel, although bits of graphics drivers are part of Xorg the graphics system , and printer drivers are included with CUPS the print system. That means most of the available hardware drivers are already on your computer, included along with the kernel, graphics server, and print server. These drivers are sometimes developed by hobbyists.
In other words, most hardware drivers are included out-of-the-box. Your Linux system should automatically detect your hardware and use the appropriate hardware drivers. Some manufacturers to provide their own, closed-source, proprietary drivers. Some Wi-Fi drivers are also still proprietary, so your wireless hardware may not work until you install them. How you install proprietary drivers depends on your Linux distribution.
It will detect which proprietary drivers you can install for your hardware and allow you to install them. Every Linux distribution handles it in a different way. You may need to install drivers for printers, however. These files are often part of the Windows driver for PostScript printers, and you may be able to hunt down a PPD file that makes your printer work better.
Printers can be a headache on Linux, and many may not work properly — or at all — no matter what you do. Searching for a guide to making a specific piece of hardware work on your specific Linux distribution might help. Such a guide might walk you through finding a manufacturer-provided driver and installing it, which will often require terminal commands. Linux works best when manufacturers contribute their drivers to the kernel as open-source software.
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