For a given device, sometimes one linux distro perfectly supports a hardware component. Then if I switch distros, the same component no longer functions at all, or is very buggy.
How do I find out what the difference is?
For a given device, sometimes one linux distro perfectly supports a hardware component. Then if I switch distros, the same component no longer functions at all, or is very buggy.
How do I find out what the difference is?
Some distributions also maintain their own kernels with patches that may or may not support your hardware. For example, Red Hat specifically removes support for some storage devices even though the baseline kernel has support.
is there a way to find out for a given component? where to look?
filesystem, release notes, repositories? terminal tool will give me some clues?
For Red Hat in particular you can find this information in the release notes, but it will generally not compare to baseline. Instead it notes deprecated support for hardware and support for new hardware. Each distro does things its own way.