I have to stick only for a day in operation, so nothing can be said for durability. However, anyone who has concerns about whether it works with Linux: If he does, no driver installation (used rt2800usb), with 40MHz channel width to 5 GHz. 2.4GHz funiktioniert also that but strangely only with 20 MHz channel width (and therefore low data throughput), just as in my previous Stick.