[leptons]

No, just no. Across dozens of machines with different hardware configurations, I've never had Windows download a driver. It just doesn't happen. But neither of us can provide any proof, so this comment thread isn't going to go anywhere.

[redeeman]

but lets make it simple then, I obtain a retail copy of windows 11, go and buy the latest nvidia gpu, released AFTER win11 was released, and it has a proper driver without downloading?

edit: or another scenario, i go out and buy a new lenovo or dell or whatever laptop, format the disk, install retail windows, and now windows just has the drivers for all this?

or another scenario, I go and buy motherboard, ram, cpu, gpu, install windows, and it just magically has drivers for all the hardware?

the answer is: it does not, absolutely not.

[redeeman]

and what hardware exactly do you plug in? obviously its not gonna do it even if you plug in 1000 different USB hid mice, other than that, drivers are totally needed for many things, and windows just doesnt come with drivers for remotely all hardware, which is a very very easily provable fact.