>Yes, install Linux on a random 5 year old laptop, and you may have problems This is in fact the opposite of reality. Old hardware works relatively well. New h

>Yes, install Linux on a random 5 year old laptop, and you may have problems This is in fact the opposite of reality. Old hardware works relatively well. New hardware can take quite a while to get support because it's not a priority for vendors, especially GPUs which the article harpes on, is a very risky gamble - even if it works "works well" is misleading - it's always behind Windows performance wise and very often power management is inferior too.