This is my experience too. You have to care if hardware works, but when it works - and that is very frequent nowadays - it usually works much better than on win

This is my experience too. You have to care if hardware works, but when it works - and that is very frequent nowadays - it usually works much better than on windows. My best example case is a Asus C120 mini projector whose linux driver development I personally helped. When plugged, it shows itself as a mass storage device with a .exe file with the driver for windows 7. The driver doesn't work on recent windows versions, I don't know if you can download a new version. On linux, just plug it and it turns into a monitor. Nothing to do, no command to type. And the best part: I discovered it when I accidently plugged it on an ARM machine. It is very unlikely you could have such a good experience even with supported hardware on windows.