It can be very confusing for someone who have just installed Ubuntu to discover that his web cam is working, but that he has no control over settings like brightness, contrast, auto exposure etc. But today we have Video4Linux video capture framework supported by UVC and GSPCA web cam drivers and most web cams are working happily on our Linux PCs. Web cam support was once blind spot on Linux supported hardware list.
The Linux community developers are actually doing miracles with hardware support and I thank them on doing such a great work. The hardware manufacturers are to blame for not supporting their own hardware on operating systems other than the proprietary ones. That isn't really Linux community's fault. Good hardware support is one of the last things Linux is lacking when compared to other operating systems. In the last few years the functionality cost of running Linux operating system shrunk.
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