> it sucks that wifi, bluetooth, and sleep mode don't work for you - so maybe Linux isn't a good choice for you if those are important. ...or maybe his hardwar

> it sucks that wifi, bluetooth, and sleep mode don't work for you - so maybe Linux isn't a good choice for you if those are important. ...or maybe his hardware's not well-supported. And what's well-supported is by any metric significantly improved from, say, five years ago. If you buy fairly mainstream hardware, at least on the Intel side of things, I think it tends to be fine. My experience has led me to think that a lot of these ongoing complaints (the ones that aren't actually stale) are some weird hardware somewhere along the line. When buying neither of the last two laptops I bought (HP Spectre x360, Lenovo ThinkPad T480) did I do any sort of Linux compatibility check. For the ThinkPad I figured it'd be fine because Lenovo historically has had solid support, but I kind of expected there to be problems with the x360 that never manifested. I got rid of it for other reasons, mostly around HP's support being pretty lousy and demanding I go without a work machine for two weeks because a keycap had come broken from the factory, but the Linux support? Just fine.