• garretble@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Windows is great because if you plug your mouse into one USB port then maybe you move the mouse to another, it completely forgets that mouse ever existed and is like “setting up device!”

    Bro, you know what this is.

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      4 days ago

      well technically… USB initialization isn’t that simple, when you change which port it’s plugged into, it’s numerated under that new memory space, so from the computers perspective, it’s a different number, it’s a different device.

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        4 days ago

        Is that just obfuscated on other platforms (like MacOS)? I don’t think I’ve ever had a Mac get “confused” by a device by changing its port.

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          Could be like Linux where a lot of drivers are in the kernel and it doesn’t need to add drivers every time you plug something in