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Windows users don't have to reverse engineer anything before their hardware works.

>>coryrc+(OP)
No shit. The hardware vendors do all the work for them.

>>coryrc+(OP)
that's because new hardware is made to work for windows. Few companies care about linux drivers

>>pessim+z
Users don’t care who did the work, they only care if the device functions or not.

>>autoex+H
Almost any hardware you get today will have standard components with Linux support. Can you give some more examples of which companies and what components you're referring to?

>>encryp+j4
There's a long list of devices that have problems with linux. The hardware I think I've seen the most complaints about are wifi/ethernet chipsets, printers/scanners, and spotty support for specific features like sensors, LED lights, and fan/cooling controls. Problems with video cards are far less common now than they used to be but I still see people having weird issues from time to time and sadly most of the firmware still contains closed source binary blobs.

>>encryp+j4
RGB control is quite spotty. Finger print readers are almost entirely non functioning. Often webcams on brand new laptops do not work. Brightness control for OLED often doesn't work. Suspend and sleep still seems to be an issue, especially with something relating to "modern sleep" where the OS remains functional for things like internet access while sleeping.

I think largely these days people just plug less stuff in, printers, scanners, other odd gadgets are less common so its really just USB mass storage devices and video outputs getting physically plugged in. Otherwise everything else is controlled over wifi with a phone app.

>>coryrc+(OP)
>before their hardware works

Linux users don't have to either. (Linux devs do.) Another thing they don't have to do is searching vendor site for drivers which may not even be installed correctly.

>>forgot+s21
It's very rare to have to search for drivers these days on Windows. Last time I had to do so a few years ago, it was for an old IrDA receiver - and I doubt many people these days even know what that is.