With these things it boils down to two issues that are often related. First being drivers, second being software patents. With regards to drivers there are tw

With these things it boils down to two issues that are often related. First being drivers, second being software patents. With regards to drivers there are two variants of the issue. The first is buggy proprietary drivers. Please stop insisting on using Nividia hardware under Linux just because they offer a proprietary driver pack. That driver pack is a mess and a half, and most of the complaints i have seen levied against X11 can be explained by said proprietary drivers being in use. The second is buggy hardware hidden by proprietary Windows drivers. This is why you see all kinds of power management issues under Linux. All too often the hardware will claim to support being suspended, but never come back to life one done so. Manufacturers knows of this, and will implement workarounds in their official drivers. As for software patents, they result in FOSS having to wait some 20 years to implement "bleeding obvious" features to avoid getting sued.