Maybe it’s because I was last into linux more heavily 10+ years ago. But I am amazed at how distros work now. 15 year old wifi adapter that originally came with cd based drivers? Works perfectly without anything extra. Racing wheel i got on ebay? Works perfectly. Mouse, keyboard, tartarus, no issue. I am just very happy with how well linux has been working, and hopefully this will bring more people to make the switch. However, I have not had luck with vr (oculus. I hear index does better). Thats the one thing I do hope for more progress on.
The only hardware I had trouble with was a 3D Connexion Space Pilot. Linux defaults to seeing it as a tablet mouse or track nub, rather than a 6 axis 3D controller. The Linux download from the site did get it working though.
If you haven’t seen it, the open source driver for 3d connexion stuff is also pretty good, and I believe might be necessary for blender to work with it. It’s also probably packaged in the distro repositories.
https://github.com/FreeSpacenav/spacenavd
Yes I have used it. A while back, and I had to run the app as root. But yeah, I was setting it up for blender use
Hopefully devices like that can more easily be implemented with the plugin support for libinput. It sounds like the poster child for it.