It's not luck. It's hard work by a dedicated group of people who make it happen. 🙏

I've had zero problems with linux working with any hardware I have.

But thats mostly because I selected hardware from companies known to have good linux compatability. like AMD, and TPlink

I had that experience yesterday.

I wanted to see if a old fingerprint reader I bought 6 or 7 years ago would work, wasn't expecting it to but lo and behold, it was in the fprint documentation as a supported device and once set up, worked without issue.

The Linux community fucking rules man. So many talented and hard working people make this stuff possible.

I look at https://linux-hardware.org/ before buying hardware, so it always works

I have not had luck with vr (oculus. I hear index does better).

Which oculus headset do you have? If its a Quest then ALVR is the way to go. The wired only ones dont really work. If you want to see your desktop in vr, then you can use WlxOverlay-S for that.

Definitely better than Windows lately, which is kinda amusing. Have you tried reinstalling Windows from scratch lately?