Option three: YOLO it and be the first to come up with a working config for it after ripping your hair out for weeks.
And then never tell the rest of the Internet…
Hey guys I got a wifi69 card, does anyone know how to make it work? NVM I fixed it.
(User disappears after the post and never elaborates, meanwhile replying to the thread is also a necro post and it gets locked anyway)
Or my other favourite:
How to make Gameguy xbox controller work: [posted 5 years ago] [Deleted by user]
I somehow came across a guy who seems to be doing exactly that first part for RGB control of Corsair products.
Dude will add support for your devices in a matter of days if it doesn’t already exist, and won’t even take donations for his project. The open source community is awesome sometimes.
That’s pretty much how I buy my phones: Look at the LineageOS device list, find the newest ones I can find/afford.
Same, but grapheneOS and max screen width (big hands / fat fingers).
It’s why I get AMD for everything.
There plenty of other things to consider too, though, especially for laptops.
WiFi chipset, trackpad hardware, webcam, all can lead to a sad time with the wrong manufacturers and driver support
Modern devices are pretty generic. You can install Linux on just about anything.
Web cams tend to be USB devices and trackpads are often SPI. WiFi can be an issue but only with a handful of devices.
I’ve been using Linux for close to twenty years. What hardware database?
!⬆️!< Same question? 🤔
It probably means this hardware database.
Rad, but my Lenovo model is not there, everything works perfectly though
They provide a tool called hwprobe or something. Probe your computer and add to their database