I wondered about this because I bought a box of cheap Chinese Nano clones a year or so ago and I never installed any drivers to talk to them with my laptop, upon which I run only Linux.  I thought I had the weird serial port because I ran into the watchdog timer issue that is associated with them.  So I looked into it.  As near as I can tell, Linux has had "out of the box" drivers for the CH340G serial port for many years.  So, there is no need to install any drivers to talk to your boards if you run Linux.  It "just works".

On 4/1/2019 5:22 AM, Jon “KF5TFJ” Noxon via BVARC wrote:
_Linux users: _

Install the appropriate version, however I do not really recommend Linux for the Arduino 101, because of difficulty installing the Chinese USB-Serial driver, which is needed. Again, disk space!

STEP TWO

The Arduino Nanos I will be supplying use a Chinese USB-SERIAL chip (CH340G). The manufacture’s official download site, unfortunalely is only available in Chinese, but I have a solution. Use Google Translate!

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