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Configuring USB

Configuring USB

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Configuring USB

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- Working with USB devices is usually pretty straightforward. The one thing you need to remember is that if you've got some USB device, like this is a little web camera, in this particular case the USB pretty much works in any operating system. The downside is whatever device is connected to the end of the USB is going to need a device driver. Now, traditionally working with Windows operating system, Linux also, the rule has always been, first install the device driver for the thing, then plug it in and then it'll work fine. No, in this particular example because I'm running Windows 10 that's really less of an issue than it was before. In today's, especially Windows 10 world, I pretty much just plugged things in. Windows has tens of thousands if not a hundred thousand different device drivers built into the operating system itself. And on the rare occasion when it can't find a device driver it will go online…

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