The antenna works with openSUSE 12.1 (Linux kernel 3.1.0) "out of the box". She puts in the fully paved back of my PCs and doing their duty without muck. Actually, it is not particularly thick, but it protrudes slightly over a directly adjacent USB ports. I can now only what plug it very small and flat. But it is articulated and can be rotated and wrinkles what the saving millimeters brings under my desk. Granted, extremely robust it does not act. But it is not always traveling, so no problem.