This is an accurate description of the different ways it sucks when one insists on using software on unsupported or semi-supported hardware. Of course there wi

This is an accurate description of the different ways it sucks when one insists on using software on unsupported or semi-supported hardware. Of course there will be unsupported wifi cards on the market. Of course there will be cards which kind of work when you load some unsuported third party driver but they will promptly crash on some future version. Those will never be supported in upstream software. Don't buy them and force Linux on them, it won't end well. Don't buy a Dell PC and be angry at Apple when MacOS won't run. Unless you do it with the intention of working on a port. It's the same situation with any other operating system. It's also been pretty clear for over a decade that nvidia is unlikely to be supported in upstream software, as long as they won't use the same standards as everyone else. There's been some recent developments on that front which suggests this situation may not be forever, but don't hold your breath. Given the choice, it's pretty common to use Linux, at least among developers. One of the great things about it is that it just works. I have now thrown away the hardware but I used to have a workstation with a Debian install that was about two decades old. It had only been upgraded in-place, never reinstalled, and how many libc upgrades that included I do not know. The migration to the new executable format in the 90s was a bit problematic in the beginning, but that worked out well too. That's the sort of stability you can expect from it. It was a long time ago I bought any new computers, but in the laptop realm well supported for a long time meant the performance Thinkpad series. Now all the big providers sell laptops with Linux pre-installed, so I take it they will work great too. But there are a lot of crappy Windows-type laptops out there. They're the kind that turn themselves on in your bag and cooks themselves. The Linux experience aren't going to be great with them.