"In over thirty years of doing this, I have yet to see a single time where every device in the laptop worked properly right after the install. Never happened."

"In over thirty years of doing this, I have yet to see a single time where every device in the laptop worked properly right after the install. Never happened." In 15 years I experienced it 2 times by chance. But yes, the battery life was probably still lower than on stock windows. But not having to fight your system, but bugs, is a different feel. I still cannot completely deactivate windows antivirus on my all the time offline laptop. Shit like this. If linux would reliably work out of the box, standards might change. But it is a long way, but I believe it can change. There is momentum (and Valve's engagement helped).