[reactordev]

This is the future. Hardware has already standardized more towards USB HID than in previous decades, Linus interview included. When AI can develop these device drivers based on just probing the HID info, we’ll be on Cloud9. Because maybe then, we’ll get the year of the Linux desktop.

[rcxdude]

Such standard interfaces are rarely the problem, though there is often a headache of dealing with the pile of 'quirky' hardware that just so happens to work well enough with exactly what windows happens to do. The pain point is all the things that aren't that. Nonstandard, niche hardware which maybe has a few thousand users, or big and complex interfaces like graphics cards which are basically whole OSs on their own.

[BenjiWiebe]

Pretty sure if your device actually just uses USB HID, it already works on Linux without a custom driver.

What requires a custom driver is when your device adds its own non standard features.

[anthk]

USB it's a nightmare.

[reactordev]

Sarcasm is too for some

[eMPee584]

Yeah, it's very easy. Real devices usually adhere to the specs.. only very few exceptions: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blame/master/drivers/hid/h... .. /s