We are sometimes using in our company webcams connected to headless server.
From my experience most of them works perfect. What we had problems with
was (on Debian Jessie, maybe it is solved in Stretch) Logitech C920. It
offers built in hardware video acceleration, but it was a disadvantage -
does not work with default driver, and uses too much CPU when streaming
video. On the other side is another Logitech product, C270, which is
compatible out of the box and offers very good quality.
RPi community page also can be a good source of knowledge as mentioned
before, just make sure that you don't buy a dedicated Raspberry Pi camera,
which I believe will not work on PC.
There are some dedicated cameras for surveillance, but not sure about
compatibility. Maybe check
https://zoneminder.com/ for more details.
Regards,
Artur
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