[Jonnax]

Is there any value in these driver add-on tools that manufacturers ship?

Like printer drivers they seem to be badly coded messes that create attack surfaces.

For a typical laptop everything except bios updates can be got straight from the vendor of the component.

I'm surprised microsoft haven't started distributing stuff like GPU, Chipset and other drivers themselves.

[hojjat12000]

I have a Matebook D. The manager is useful to update your drivers all at once (plus your bios too). It's the only program that comes with the laptop, so no bloatware. I've been happy with the laptop, and I don't think there is any malice here, just a stupid mistake, that they already have fixed it.

[allset_]

With Win10 they do ship those drivers through Windows updates.

[kiwijamo]

They’ve done it for previous versions as well. I think that practice goes back to Vista at the very least.

[rincebrain]

It started in Vista, AFAIK, but it didn't really become reliably useful for _most_ of the drivers on even relatively common hardware configurations until 7, and even now it's still not complete (I installed a Coffee Lake-era Intel desktop with Win10, and I still got to play Hunt the Unknown Device Driver even after the endless reboots for updating had installed every driver Windows Update offered, and that's for onboard peripherals, not a fly-by-night USB device or PCIe card.)

[chronogram]

For future people with troubles you could go try sdi-tool.org which works nice for me and a lot of friends for years now.