This is something that was impressed on me by the Hackintosh world— desktops are comparatively easy to build because you can always buy hardware that has preexi

This is something that was impressed on me by the Hackintosh world— desktops are comparatively easy to build because you can always buy hardware that has preexistent drivers written. For laptops, everything is proprietary, often with only enough ACPI implemented to get Windows to boot. Usually discrete GPUs are disabled for reasons I never had need to remember, even when drivers otherwise exist.