To be fair, many of the laptop issues have less to do with Linux and more to do with the hardware manufacturers. There's lots of hardware out there, and the ma

To be fair, many of the laptop issues have less to do with Linux and more to do with the hardware manufacturers. There's lots of hardware out there, and the manufacturers just don't produce drivers for anything but Windows. Certainly, the community has contributed buckets of drivers, but "stuff just works" on Windows and Mac laptops because hardware has support for those OSes.