Hardware just works on OSX. I have never been required to compile any drivers from source for OSX. I have had to compile drivers from source for Linux for: Keyb

Hardware just works on OSX. I have never been required to compile any drivers from source for OSX. I have had to compile drivers from source for Linux for: Keyboard - Black Widow Anasazi; Wireless-N dual band usb dongles... in the last year. the keyboard and the dongles worked out of the box, but both were missing some of the functionality they have on other os'. Specifically, the usb dongles couldn't work on their 5ghz band. The driver that was compatible with their chipsets needed to be manually updated because the hw ids weren't in the headers for the driver. The keyboard has additional keys that were unrecognized by Linux that had to be made available. support is likewise troublesome. You can use these things-just not be fully as on OSX.