Software · System & repair

Hardware Probe

Check operability of computer hardware and find drivers.

Completely free
Linux
Open source

Overview

Features described in its Flathub listing and in its GitHub repository: version history.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“Probe is a snapshot of your computer hardware state.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Hardware Probe is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (BSD-2-Clause) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

Open source code
Commercial use allowed

About

A tool to probe for hardware, check operability and find drivers with the help of Linux Hardware Database. Probe is a snapshot of your computer hardware state. The tool checks operability of devices by analysis of logs, uploads anonymized hardware info to the database and returns a permanent url to view the probe of the computer. If some of hardware devices doesn't work due to a missed driver then the tool will suggest a proper Linux kernel version according to the LKDDb or third-party drivers. Run as root if you want to check health of all your hard drives: flatpak run org.linux_hardware.hw-probe -all -upload

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 8 November 2026
Last technical check: 6 November 2026
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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