[rglullis]

It's the other day around. You should be asking them what beamers they would be able to use on their Linux systems with good support and that does not require complicated tools, instead of buying something that is not supported (yet!) and claiming later that Linux is crap because it doesn't work for your particular type of hardware.

[pjmlp]

Except at the end of the day catering for 1% of the desktop is too much to ask for to cripple business operations with, when 99% of everyone else is coming in with Windows and macOS laptops.

[rglullis]

Not at all. The peripherals that work with Linux also will (likely) work with Windows or MacOS.

[pjmlp]

Yeah, and usually more constraint in capabilities.

[rglullis]

If by "capability" you mean not supporting some latest standard that provides marginal benefit over established solutions (e.g, Wi-Fi b/n/c/whatever, "cloud printing") or anti-features (Apple's "Pro" touchbar), then yes. But if you mean being able to do anything actually useful, I'd say that maybe only those working with Audio Processing still are under-served by Linux Desktop - and even that will change soon with Pipewire.

[deltaonefour]

Don't forget CAD, gaming, Photo editing, Video Editing, Visual Effects and much much more.

[rglullis]

No. The point of the discussion was about hardware support. Wacom tablets, USB video game controllers and custom editing panels (like the ones for DaVinci Resolve) are AFAIK supported on Linux just fine.

[pjmlp]

Yeah, yet another reboot on the GNU/Linux desktop stack, I lost count of them.

[rglullis]

You are really grasping at straws here. We are talking about Linux support for devices in a traditional work environment and I can seriously say that has been more than adequate for more than 10 years. How many backward-incompatible API changes does Apple push every couple of OS versions?

How many dongles were people forced to buy to continue using whatever peripheral they had already working?

Can you please stop with the goal-post moving?