I don't have much experience trying to use external hardware with Linux because I don't tinker much outside of software. Only mouse/keyboard/monitor, and then

I don't have much experience trying to use external hardware with Linux because I don't tinker much outside of software. Only mouse/keyboard/monitor, and then a few MIDI devices. But that's valid -- I could see this being a problem with anything new/exotic, and it did bite me in the ass when trying to use a brand-new GPU on most recent LTS release.