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ExLisper

Yeah, it's really hard to find WiFi 6 hardware with reliable Linux support (brostrend.com has good support). It used to be that things like sport watches required apps to configure and only Windows was supported but nowadays most will be configurable using Android. Most common hardware (cameras, card readers, external drives) use USB now so it's hard to find something without support.
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fuckwit_mcbumcrumble

What’s even worse is when it “supports” it but in a way that’s so unusable broken it’s better to just not support it at all.

I tried Linux on my old laptop with an Intel AX201 card. For the longest time it wouldn’t constantly connect to 5ghz, try to swap to 6, then 2 seconds later fall back to 5. WiFi was basically unusable on that laptop unless I turned off 6ghz. Even then speed was only half what it should have been.

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Rentlar

Some DACs have Windows only official drivers...

I have an Akai EIE Pro that I have not been able to use, though it seems there are experimental user made Linux Drivers I have not tried to compile yet.


GitHub - mmm444/eie-pro-linux: Playground for Akai EIE Pro Linux driver

Playground for Akai EIE Pro Linux driver. Contribute to mmm444/eie-pro-linux development by creating an account on GitHub.
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nyan

A lot of Broadcom cards are supported, so you either have a missing driver/firmware blob or some really bad luck.

Historically, phone line modems were very often unsupported (some people may remember the term "winmodem"), but hardly anyone uses them anymore, so the problem has effectively gone away. Older consumer-grade printers that didn't speak Postscript, ditto. I own a very old TV capture card of the analog type that has never been supported, but probably won't work with modern Windows either.

Modern hardware is more likely to be supported unless it's too niche to attract developers, or too bleeding-edge for its protocol to have been reverse-engineered yet.

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