My experience of weird USB configurations has tended to be that Linux seems a lot more tolerant than Windows. I’m guessing the kind of people who play with Raspberry Pis are much more likely to play with USB-over-ethernet, USB repeater-extension cables, etc, than the average Windows user. So I’m not sure it’s fair to assume that just because this hardware works under Linux, the same will be true of Windows! 🙂
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