alt Hacker News>but then package those modules into separate packages. If you don't need somedriver.ko, then you don't `apt install linux-driver-somedriver
But I don't want to know what drivers I need and will need next. Tomorrow I could buy a different wifi module and then what? Spend 3 hours googling which rtl378326973268632aahaxhabt.ko to install? Thanks but no thanks.
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tardedmeme • yesterday at 8:00 PM
On older versions of Windows you used to get popups saying new hardware is detected, would you like to install the driver now?
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So why can't someone (probably the distro) build a utility that detects the hardware and installs the required kernal module?
We can have security and convenience.