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by ramses0 479 days ago
I chased a Kinect v2 for PC, but the driver story on linux isn't great (since it never hit that broad distribution). Well, that was a few years ago, it may have improved since then.
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Yep. Last commit 5 years ago, not included by default on distro's or kernels, build-from-source-and-hope... ;-)

The kinect1 appears to be "OOTB-ish" at least on ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libfreenect

...so just an advisory that for casual purposes a Kinect1 is going to be better than a Kinect2.

sure if you like 90s webcam resolutions I guess.