yeh years ago, to get Linux working you might need an older computer because the kernels did not catch up yet. Nowadays, I can just buy any new computer and can be sure that 90% of my devices will work with it.

The only problem now is modern standby. Intel and AMD kept fucking up standby mode on laptops.

It's not luck. It's hard work by a dedicated group of people who make it happen. 🙏

I've had zero problems with linux working with any hardware I have.

But thats mostly because I selected hardware from companies known to have good linux compatability. like AMD, and TPlink

I look at https://linux-hardware.org/ before buying hardware, so it always works

Definitely better than Windows lately, which is kinda amusing. Have you tried reinstalling Windows from scratch lately?

I have not had luck with vr (oculus. I hear index does better).

Which oculus headset do you have? If its a Quest then ALVR is the way to go. The wired only ones dont really work. If you want to see your desktop in vr, then you can use WlxOverlay-S for that.

I had that experience yesterday.

I wanted to see if a old fingerprint reader I bought 6 or 7 years ago would work, wasn't expecting it to but lo and behold, it was in the fprint documentation as a supported device and once set up, worked without issue.

The Linux community fucking rules man. So many talented and hard working people make this stuff possible.

I got an old thermal receipt printer, plugged it into the parallel port and echoed some text to /dev/lp0 and it printed. I didn't have to set anything up. I did have to write a simple python script to make it print images though.

The only hardware I had trouble with was a 3D Connexion Space Pilot. Linux defaults to seeing it as a tablet mouse or track nub, rather than a 6 axis 3D controller. The Linux download from the site did get it working though.