For a given device, sometimes one linux distro perfectly supports a hardware component. Then if I switch distros, the same component no longer functions at all, or is very buggy.
How do I find out what the difference is?
For a given device, sometimes one linux distro perfectly supports a hardware component. Then if I switch distros, the same component no longer functions at all, or is very buggy.
How do I find out what the difference is?
But on Linux aren’t most drivers part of the kernel?
I think maybe if there are license issues the distros have different policies? You might need to do some kind of extra step to include certain drivers.
Depends on the hardware. You have to download NVIDIA drivers from your package manager.
Yes, and different distros use different kernel versions which they’ve compiled differently.