Boycott gland without support in linux

Fortunately, the power and performance of computer hardware has already reached heights, allowing you to work comfortably on any computer "from the supermarket." The release of a new processor with an even more transcendental frequency or hard disk of infinite volumes is no longer pleasing to the heart as it was before. Megapixels of cameras have overstepped 10-ku and now, it seems, they grow only so that it is at least something to drive hard drives. At the same time, the range of brands, models and architectures has increased. Now, the choice of a particular product is often dictated not by technical characteristics, but, in many respects, by its availability and your brand loyalty.

Many blame Linux for the lack of support for a certain hardware - this is really true. But the essence of the problem is that for many 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 ruin the Manufacturer from this vicious practice.

This means that when buying a new hardware, read the forums, official sites, communities and make sure that this hardware supports Linux (in that order). When you buy hardware without Linux support, you not only get non-working hardware, which you will have to “torment in the console” for a long time with an uncertain result, but also slow down healthy competition, evolution or progress.
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The fall in demand for products without Linux support will force the Manufacturer to take seriously the new platform, which, in turn, will increase the interest and development of open source software.

Update: On the advice of mvgolubev , I add links to hardware directories that support Linux:
- integrated base for 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

- sound 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