Maybe it’s because I was last into linux more heavily 10+ years ago. But I am amazed at how distros work now. 15 year old wifi adapter that originally came with cd based drivers? Works perfectly without anything extra. Racing wheel i got on ebay? Works perfectly. Mouse, keyboard, tartarus, no issue. I am just very happy with how well linux has been working, and hopefully this will bring more people to make the switch. However, I have not had luck with vr (oculus. I hear index does better). Thats the one thing I do hope for more progress on.
If you haven’t seen it, the open source driver for 3d connexion stuff is also pretty good, and I believe might be necessary for blender to work with it. It’s also probably packaged in the distro repositories.
https://github.com/FreeSpacenav/spacenavd
Yes I have used it. A while back, and I had to run the app as root. But yeah, I was setting it up for blender use