I often see people proposing others install Linux without actually considering hardware, and that easily and quickly loses potential adopters. No, Linux does n

I often see people proposing others install Linux without actually considering hardware, and that easily and quickly loses potential adopters. No, Linux does not support every piece of computer hardware ever made. You cannot blame Linux for that, if in the case of - ex - Broadcom, the company does not want to provide any documentation, support, drivers, or anything whatsoever, there is nothing you can practically expect this community to do about it. It is insane to think that if a hardware vendor won't support their own products its my job by telling you you should use Linux to then reverse engineer drivers for everything, and somehow magically break the signed firmware bullshit on a lot of modern hardware. In the same way your 1998 Lexmark printer probably doesn't work at all with Windows 8+, <insert arbitrary random thing from a decade ago> won't get support in Linux if it isn't already there. But I also blame the advocates who sell false promises about supreme compatibility - its an operating system. It supports a lot of hardware. A lot of companies support it. That does not mean all companies support it, or that all computers can work with it. But there is a difference between not supporting any hardware in a product class (ex: I have great experience with Epson xp-XXX printers and always buy them for Linux clients because they work out of the box with gutenprint in scan, print, and ink levels on Cups and do rotation / double sided properly no problem / I use Atheros ar9462 Wifi cards everywhere because they have great bluetooth + wifi that are stable as hell out of the box without configuration) and supporting enough to be functional, and Linux is absolutely functional.