If you want OnePlus 8 Windows Drivers for Fastboot, you need to install the Universal ADB Driver, which packs all of the commonly used USB Drivers into one file.
You may also be interested in using Minimal ADB and Fastboot. The minimal version of ADB and Fastboot gives you the ADB and Fastboot within the rest of the Android SDK package.
Fastboot works by booting into Bootloader/Fastboot Mode. You can use Fastboot to flash system partitions, though you must unlock the device’s bootloader before you do this. Fastboot and ADB are commonly requested by those looking to get root access or install a custom recovery image on a smartphone.
The OnePlus 8 smartphone can be rooted by using Magisk. When you use Magisk, it won’t install any custom recovery image or custom boots. The rooting method for the OnePlus 8 is different from many others and requires the lineage-18.1-20210606-recovery-instantnoodlep.img or a newer version of the same image.
Mat Diekhake
December 12, 2022 @ 18:06
All leading computer operating systems need to have drivers. A driver, as Microsoft puts it, is software that allows your computer to communicate with hardware or devices.
In essence, there wouldn’t be anything stopping your software and hardware from communicating with one another just naturally. The problem starts when you have loads of different types of hardware that all do the same thing. For example, if you were to think about sound cards connected to your motherboard, there are probably over a thousand decent ones you could choose from. Your software can recognize this as a soundcard, but there needs to be something else that allows the software to distinguish it from all other soundcards, or else they can’t communicate with one another because each one is completely different in how it works. Whatever software signal is Eb sharp to one sound card might mean B flat to another.
When that happens, software developers would have to be working around the clock trying to write code that makes the software work with all the different hardware made by different people. A software developer writing one line of code might work well for one bit of hardware but not for another. Thus you should think of a driver as a vital bit of software that transfers the language to work for your particular piece of hardware. That way the software developers just write the one bit of code for everybody and the driver handles the translation to get it working for its bit of hardware. Because there are lots of different devices out there in the world, there are also lots of different drivers. Any device that gets connected to your computer with a USB cable will require a USB driver to go along with it. Just like with the driver’s example said above, each different manufacturer that has a device needs to have a separate USB driver that helps translate the software for everything to do with that one manufacturer.