> Author appears to be complaining (among many other things) that attempting to retrofit machines that came pre-installed with Windows to run GNU/Linux doesn't

> Author appears to be complaining (among many other things) that attempting to retrofit machines that came pre-installed with Windows to run GNU/Linux doesn't work well, and... It never has. Not once. I can name zero experiences in my lifetime doing that where it was relatively painless. As usual, YMMV, but I've been running Linux with almost no issues on an HP ProBook. The only thing that doesn't work is the fingerprint reader. Bluetooth, custom secure boot keys, Wi-Fi, great battery life [0], sleep, hibernation, etc. worked without any fiddling on Arch Linux. As far as I know HP doesn't offer these computers with Linux. I'm not even sure you can get them without Windows. --- [0] Great as in "comparable to what Windows gets on the same hardware".