 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rossell here in today's video I want to talk about a few resources that are out there if you're relatively new to the world of Linux and you are Delving into the sometimes fraught subject of hardware support What hardware will work with your Linux computer whether you're looking at buying a webcam or a scanner or Any other kind of hardware for that matter? You may be interested in knowing the important question of well, is it going to work one thing? I will say I've been using Ubuntu Linux since 2008 and hardware support has gotten Considerably better over that time period It's now there's now a much much higher chance in in my experience that devices are plug-and-play Nevertheless, it always pays if you're thinking about buying something whether it's a you know Blu-ray burner or as I said a scanner or especially a printer Pays to do a little bit of research just double checking if something's going to work with Ubuntu So I want to show you guys a few resources and make a few comments First comment really is that you're going to have a higher chance of support if you're using a more common formal Linux So there's many many Linux distros of course So if you're using something relatively common like Ubuntu The chances of you either being able to ask someone or find a resource for whether it'll work. They're going to be higher There's a few different URLs. I wanted to pop open to show you guys So Ubuntu has made this attempt to Have Ubuntu certified hardware Ensuring that Ubuntu runs well out of the box So this is a nice program and they're trying to sell this to manufacturers in terms of This the certification program just to make life easier for us Ubuntu users, but you can see in the desktop space They have 277 Desktops a lot of them from Dell that have been certified to work with Ubuntu if I filter on HP We can see there's a few more and they even certify them by release. So this is definitely a step forward You can see this HP micro power TC is a desktop system certified with Ubuntu 18 04 so this is a Certification program being rolled out by Ubuntu the categories up on the website currently are Ubuntu certified desktops Laptops, which is super useful. I've never looked for an Ubuntu certified laptop I've also never had problems with Ubuntu, but I have had problems with Debbie and in any event You can I get desktops and laptops pre-installed with Ubuntu? I think this is definitely a really good idea and you can see for the latest LTS 20 04 There's 284 Ubuntu certified laptops at the time. I'm recording this video, which is 6 of June 2022 Ubuntu certified servers Ubuntu certified IOT devices Ubuntu certified systems on a chip SOC's and They're trying to sell this to vendors as well So that's a nice program and this is the curve. This is another link here about their Ubuntu's Ubuntu's programs you can see the current programs called Ubuntu certified They did have Ubuntu friendly, which was kind of a previous attempt at this. You can see it was wrapped up in 2013 They have a wiki as well, and it's a bit more extensive than Than the previous page. They're not certified But for example, if we pop into the webcams category here We can find let's say for instance, we want to filter on logitech webcams and there is a wiki. It's not beautifully Organized I'm not sure it's even 100% complete. It's very out of date You can see we're going to Ubuntu 10 here Ubuntu 6 So it doesn't look like this resource is very well maintained unfortunately last edited 2012 So that wiki isn't super useful Moving a little bit outside of the official Ubuntu ecosystem here There's a website called linuxhardware.org I'll put a link in the description and I also will just do my usual Technique of flashing it up here on the screen. So that's the URL linux-hardware.org This is a pretty useful. This is obviously not run by Ubuntu Or anyone like that, but it's actually pretty seems to do a better job at Listing so if we go into you can look for parts here vendor find a computer and They even list webcams and sometimes you'll be searching for a computer and it'll show up Next resource for you guys is to show that I wanted to highlight is the linux hardware subreddit So it's our linux hardware and there is 66,000 people on the sub so it's not a tiny subreddit Sometimes you just can't beat Human intelligence so asking people. Hey, does this webcam work or does this motherboard work etc? So you can ask I'm not sure there's a flare for saying does it work? So I try to periodically post your saying this works etc But this is a good place if you have questions you can pop over to linux hardware and ask We've already looked at that the next way I'm just going to take an example of the Logitech C930E Camera right so then you've got googling which You know the good old Google method type it into Google and for instance when I typed in Logitech C930E We saw that it had an entry on hardware for linux, which I showed previously So it's listed there and it'll show you which kernel drivers you need and the the status that on Ubuntu 20.04 it was detected Three different probes and you can even go into the individual details so that to me that looks like it works I own the C920, but I wouldn't doubt that usually Usually well-known popular webcams if you're using a pretty standard type of linux like you know Ubuntu You can see all the distros here fedora majoro arch usually mint nowadays. It's getting good. We're not not really Running into problems so frequently, but there is these databases the second thing Let's go back to this Logitech C930E webcam, right? So I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon or I use Amazon as a Lookup tool to do my product research So what you can do on Amazon is scroll down now You'll see for instance this webcam doesn't mention Ubuntu supports It just mentions Windows and Mac. You'll see this very common. The vendors are generally a bit reluctant because there's so many Linux distros. I think they're reluctant to say this works on Linux because it might work on Common distros, but then there'll be one distro won't work on and then you've got a bunch of angry customers Who are like it says it works on Linux? So my experience is vendors are reluctant to put that Linux stamp on nevertheless what you can do is Type into the review section Ubuntu and you'll find people commenting just a purchaser So you can see here Is this plug-and-play with Ubuntu and this guy says I'm using it with Ubuntu every day I wouldn't expect this not to work. You can also try the Linux keyword for other distros This guy's using it with Linux Mint or you can type in for example arch. I mean you might have more More trouble there as you can see so that's kind of the main ways in my experience I've been using the internet to research whether hardware works works with Ubuntu Sometimes drivers are a bit buggy, but for the most part these days I'm finding increasingly stuff is plug-and-play and works nicely out of the box Hope this video was useful and thank you guys for watching