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I've been using Linux for almost 25 years and I've never once considered mouse or keyboard incompatibility, and that's including ADB, PS/2 and DB9 devices, let alone USB.
As far as I know, you can intercept any signal from any such HID device and map it to whatever action you want to achieve at whatever level you need it.
I'm happy to be wrong, but I'd be surprised.
A lot of newer big "gamer" brand peripherals are coming bundled with proprietary software you gotta run to get full functionality.
A friend of mine recently tried Linux and had his scroll wheel not work because it was tired to the software on Windows for some stupid reason...
I saw this trend starting nearly a decade ago when Razers software bricked my Win7 PC by booting before the login screen, I've avoided any devices with mandatory software since, but seems the issue has only grown lately.
While generally true, I believe there’s a lot of weird custom wireless communication out there. Plenty of mice and keyboards refuse to communicate over a standard HID protocol which leads many to not work for enterprise type devices / appliances. Anything with an HID / Console port (like some KVMs) for management will just not respond properly to key presses even if the downstream usb host can detect presses properly. This is extremely nuanced and not at all the same as something like Logitech G-Hub only being windows so customizing the buttons / RGB on the M/K is a questionable adventure for normal users.