I guess I implied it in my comment, but I'll explicitly say it here: > I did not search for, manually install, or otherwise fiddle with drivers for any of my c

I guess I implied it in my comment, but I'll explicitly say it here: > I did not search for, manually install, or otherwise fiddle with drivers for any of my current 3 personal machines. I have done so many times in the past, but not for these three[1]. This is particularly true for the System76 which not only had drivers pre-installed and the repository configured, but also had no issues out of the box...or ever in my case. Dell had the drivers installed and the repo pre-configured...but out of the box there were some bugs in various drivers at release...but again for me it was a matter of waiting for a fix and just doing a regular `apt-get` update process...none of the typical online support forum crawling I typically am used to. Don't get me wrong, there are many other things that might dissuade you from going the Linux route, but driver headaches of old are largely gone, especially if you get a laptop/desktop with OEM support. [1] Aside for the aforementioned `update` and `upgrade` combination using the `apt-get` packaging system...but the relevant repositories were already configured (or configured automatically as is the case for custom build).