>By contrast, suspend and Wi-Fi on laptops has been a perpetual headache I completely disagree about WiFi. I haven't had problems with that on Linux in many y

>By contrast, suspend and Wi-Fi on laptops has been a perpetual headache I completely disagree about WiFi. I haven't had problems with that on Linux in many years. Maybe you're buying some really crappy WiFi chips, but I've done fine with both Broadcom and Intel. I'd stick to Intel though. >and suboptimal GPU utilization is a common cause of battery life issues on Linux laptop setups I'd say that GPUs are the perpetual headache on Linux with regards to hardware support. More than anything else. All the problems with getting Linux to run on desktop/laptop machines has usually come down to poor GPU support for many years now. >Furthermore, the peculiarities in laptop keyboards, webcams and touchpads are often incompletely supported; generally only the most common laptop models will get support for the topbar keys before they're obsolete. I haven't had any trouble with this stuff for ages. It all "just works" on Latitudes and Thinkpads. I don't do anything special; I just install the latest Linux Mint and it just works. >and the preinstalled OS often requires significant intervention from the user in order to do tasks which are mundane on Windows, like playing mp4s or Flash, or watching Netflix. Watching Netflix hasn't been a problem for a while now. All you have to do is install Google Chrome and use that.