Hardware and printing
Drivers, firmware and microcode ship inside the image, so hardware works on first boot without anything to install.
What is included
The image carries a distribution kernel with broad driver coverage and the full set of redistributable firmware — Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, graphics, audio and CPU microcode. There is nothing to fetch after installation and no driver packages to choose, because there is no package manager to choose them with.
| Hardware | Support |
|---|---|
| Intel and AMD graphics | Open drivers, hardware video decode, Vulkan |
| NVIDIA, Turing (RTX 20 / GTX 16) and newer | Proprietary driver, Wayland with DRM modesetting |
| NVIDIA, Pascal (GTX 10) and older | Falls back to the open nouveau driver — usable, weak 3D |
| Wi-Fi 6 / 6E / 7, Bluetooth | Firmware included for Intel, MediaTek, Qualcomm, Realtek |
| Audio | PipeWire, including Sound Open Firmware for modern Intel laptops |
| Thunderbolt / USB4, NVMe, SD | Supported by the shipped kernel |
Graphics on NVIDIA
The proprietary driver is built into the image and Wayland modesetting is enabled on the kernel command line, so an RTX-class card should reach the desktop with no intervention. If a machine with an older, pre-Turing NVIDIA card struggles, it is running on nouveau — see known limitations.
Printing
CUPS and the Plasma print manager are installed. Add a printer in System Settings → Printers. Modern network printers are usually discovered automatically over IPP and need no driver at all.
Printing cannot be delegated to a Flatpak — it is a system service — which is why it is one of the few application-adjacent things that ships natively.
Suspend, battery and displays
Power management, battery thresholds and profiles are handled by PowerDevil in System Settings. External displays, arrangement, scaling and refresh rate are in System Settings → Display. Both are standard Plasma; nothing about immutability changes how they behave.
Firmware updates
Device firmware updates through fwupd are not yet part of Immos — updating firmware means
writing to the boot partition, which needs to be coordinated with the system updater. It is on
the roadmap. Until then, firmware updates go through your machine’s own firmware
setup or the vendor’s tooling.
Webcams
Standard USB and UVC webcams work. Some 2023-and-newer laptops use MIPI/IPU6 cameras, whose firmware is present but whose userspace support is not yet mature enough to rely on.