[LUG] Keyboard extras and Linux

[Neil Winchurst <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am due a new computer soon so I have been looking around at 
keyboards, mainly because I think a wifi, cordless keyboard would be a 
good idea.

Anyway, looking at the various reviews etc I notice that there is 
often talk of getting some of the buttons to provide some shortcuts. 
When I look at the photos I see several extra keys at the top of some 
of them.

It seems that most of them will just work as a normal keyboard on 
Linux very easily. However I am wondering about these extras that are 
mentioned. Can I assume that these will work in Windows but not in 
Linux? Any software provided on a CD will be Windows only, right?

Or are there ways around this, and is it worth the bother?

Does anyone have any information about this please?

Neil

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