its a lot different now, unless your running it on proprietary hardware without official driver support, like the random stuff laptops have these days, but now

its a lot different now, unless your running it on proprietary hardware without official driver support, like the random stuff laptops have these days, but now we have many companies making laptops for Linux so it has improved a lot. Why give money to a company to use their software when you can use open software and help fix and improve something everyone can use for free.