You don't get hardware support? I have had all kinds of hardware support (Dell, mostly Latitude and XPS) over the years and Linux was never an issue. We even ru

You don't get hardware support? I have had all kinds of hardware support (Dell, mostly Latitude and XPS) over the years and Linux was never an issue. We even run Gentoo and Void on some boxes (for the reason you state -- to keep things consistent over time) and they've never said anything about it.