I’ve been using Linux at home for a decade now and have never needed to install a driver.

You usually don’t need to download drivers in Linux, unless you want to use some really special hardware

They havent been since 10 years ago. Nvidia excempted.

Not to dog pile, but unless it’s some niche hardware drivers are the last thing that springs to mind on my Linux boxes.

I will say the Linux volunteers have a slight blind spot for creative workflows.

You just download them, like with windows?

If you’ve never downloaded drivers manually it’s super easy these days. You’ll get a tool from the device manufacturer that checks your hardware and system and automatically installs the correct driver with computer restarts at the correct places. You just press the go button.

That said most default drivers are open source and included in Linux, so you should be able to get by without downloading anything unless you need the latest manufacturer driver.

Old hardware is usually very well supported.

Are they?

I have installed Linux on a dozen computers from crummy laptops to custom build with graphics card. Most went fine. For the graphics card one, I installed popos to avoid learning about internals , but I could have spent time to solve it, I was lazy.

But I recommend having several distros on usb to do tests . That way things are easiest. Some installs have default settings that work best for random computers. So just spend a few minutes on each to test sound, WiFi and graphics. 5 minutes on each to test 10 flavors

No need to mess with any text settings at all these days… I mean, you can