Boycott gland without support in Linux

Fortunately, the power and performance of computer hardware has already reached heights that allow you to comfortably work on any computer "from the supermarket." The release of a new processor with an even more sky-high frequency or a hard drive of unlimited volumes no longer pleases the heart as before. Megapixels of cameras have stepped over 10 and now, it seems, are growing only to have at least something to clog hard drives. At the same time, the range of brands, models and architectures has increased. Now the choice of a product often dictated not by technical characteristics, and, in many respects, its availability and your loyalty to the brand.

Many blame Linux for the lack of support for a certain hardware - this is really true. But the essence of the problem is that over the long years of undivided rule of MS Windows, the Manufacturer is used to the fact that it is enough for him to write a driver only for MS Windows. Now, when the situation has changed, the Consumer must wean the Manufacturer in ruble from this vicious practice.

This means that when buying new hardware, read the forums, official sites, communities and make sure that this hardware supports Linux (in that order). Buying hardware without Linux support, you not only get idle hardware, with which you have to "torment in the console" for a long time with an uncertain result, but also slow down healthy competition, evolution or progress.

The falling demand for products without Linux support will force the Manufacturer to take the new platform seriously, which, in turn, is an incentive to the interest and development of open software.

Update: On the advice of mvgolubev , I add links to catalogs of equipment that supports Linux:
- a comprehensive database of various devices
www.linuxcompatible.org
www.linux-drivers.org

- laptops and other mobile devices
www.linux-on-laptops.com
www. tuxmobil.org

- scanners
www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html

- audio cards
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main

- video cards
xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/Projects/Drivers

- Wi-Fi adapters
linux-wless.passys.nl
www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Wireless.html

- printers
www.openprinting.org/printer_list. cgi

- digital cameras
www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php
http://www.teaser.fr/~hfiguiere/linux/digicam.html