[brlug-general] Well-supported USB webcam

[willhill]

You could do that or you could do that or you could use what Ed said worked.  
It should work the same for you.  SID is the experimental branch of Debian 
and a non free program like Skype might be broken on it, so that thread is 
misleading.  

Overall though, the "support" experience is slowly changing.  Some vendors are 
still playing chipset games but people in stores won't give you a blank look 
when you say Linux.  Computer Heaven now has a Ubuntu guy who's comfortable 
recompiling modules for hardware support.  I don't think he'd do that for you 
in the store (hmmm, why not?  it's faster than the stuff they usually do) but 
he knows what he's talking about.  Some aspects of your "old-timey" 
experience won't go away until the non free software way is dead and gone.  

Don't buy hardware at a store that won't give you a full refund or let you try 
before you buy.  You will pay a small premium for this but you will never be 
stuck with a $100 paper weight.  Purchases send a message that's loud and 
clear.

Good luck and let us know how things turn out.

On Monday 24 March 2008, Daniel Webb wrote:
> Now that's the old-timey Linux experience I was talking about...  That's
> not what I'm looking for.  Maybe I am asking too much and I should table
> this idea for another 3 years...