This is, unfortunately, not necessarily true (of course, the strategy makes sense). I "voted with my money", and the result is that my laptop, which is suppose

This is, unfortunately, not necessarily true (of course, the strategy makes sense). I "voted with my money", and the result is that my laptop, which is supposed to be the poster child of Linux compatibility, has at least one serious hardware compatibility problem out of the box, along with at least another minor one.