Greetings, 
I just ran one up on both  my Mac and my Linux boxes and it 
required me to install drivers. 

All drivers are available are at. https://www.canakit.com/ckxw1000
in case your had not tried that. 

It is generally plug-and-play under Raspberry Raspian. I tried a host of WIFI dongles before settling on using these for that scenario. Pretty much bullet proof.
Some distros for Raspberry can also have issues it seems per my googling requiring reinstallation of the Distro. 

Under MAC it disabled the WIFI when I first plugged it in. That was under my 10.11.6 OS. but it saw it in terminal. 

Under windows you might check in your device manager to see if it shows and/or asks for anything. 
It may be that the OS is tweaked for some other wifi chipset.  There is no mention of support for anything higher than Windows 8 at the driver site  but you may be able to activate it in the device manager if there is support for Ralink.  I see there may be specialized drivers for Dell  laptops at least  per my googling. 

Under LINUX the setup can be quite involved sometimes requiring tweaking the kernal. 
It shows up in terminal in LINUX Ubuntu when I do a "lusb" as a Ralink device.  FYI  I find Realtek ones  seem to be the easiest solution for older Linux distros as that my Realtek ones have drivers that install rather easily and I have never had to fiddle with the kernal.  

Let me know if any of this info helps.
Thanks,
Best Regards,
Eric