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Why do you have to install Usb-Drivers on Windows, but I never had to do it on Linux? (self.technology)
submitted 3 months ago by Majestix to c/technology
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On my Job I regularly have to install Windows PCs and sometimes even install the USB Drivers for Mouse and Keyboard to work. Why dont I have to do that on Linux ever? Seems weird not to have them installed on Windows.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Not my experience at all. Always having to deal with hardware compatibility with Linux, for mundane stuff that Windows never even blinks over.

My best example is a Logitech mouse, arguably the most prolific and popular mouse out there, they don't work in Linux at all, until you find a third party tool. In Windows, they work immediately, albeit without Logitech's fancy management utilities. But they just work.

I see this all the time on Linux, with mundane stuff.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Which mouse and which distro? I'm genuinely curious. I've plugged my MX Master 3S directly into my work laptop running Arch many times and have never had to do anything to make it work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Where as I've got my 3S plugged in to my work laptop running fedora and, and I regularly have to cycle the connection setting away from the bolt dongle and back again, because the input becomes choppy and laggy.

No issue with the straight bluetooth connection, but the high resolution scrolling doesn't seem to work

[–] ag10n 2 points 3 months ago

Which mouse? HID is all but guaranteed to work on linux

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

My logitech G900 is plug n play on all my linux installations.

The same is true for the inexpensive logitech mouse that I have as backup (although it’s a piece of shit of a mouse and what made me decide to avoid logitech like the plague going forward).