Oh, but I do research a lot my machines before. There are many problems with that: - a casual user will just not do it. They don't have the know-how, but woul

Oh, but I do research a lot my machines before. There are many problems with that: - a casual user will just not do it. They don't have the know-how, but would they have it, they don't care enough to do so. They just want something that works. For now, Linux is and remains a tech saavy user systems, which is and will always remains a niche. Which of course means less resources will be put into it. - it's hard, and time consumming. It take no joy in hunting down "that one laptop" that will work everytime I want to buy a new machine. Then being stressed out when I actually install the system, because of course I will never be 100% be right. There will always be something. - you get twice the constraints. Search for a quality machine AND search for machine that will work on Linux. - it's not permanent. Upgrade may just break support. - it's not total support. I love my 2in1 xps. I chose it knowing I couldn't use the webcam and that I would have to forgo the tablet mode use. It's a compromise I had to make. Which a windows user doesn't have to make. - it means I have 300 great laptops I could potentially buy, but in reality probably only 10 among the most recent ones. - it means you never get to enjoy modernity. You always have to wait one year or two after a tech is popular to get decent support. None of this is a deal breaker for _me_. They are mostly 1st world people problems, meaning problems I'm happy to have :) But hand waving is not how we should approach this.