Firmware also plays a huge role these days (fan curves, ACPI, power management, etc.) But saying it can vary largely by distro is overstating it by a lot. Most

Firmware also plays a huge role these days (fan curves, ACPI, power management, etc.) But saying it can vary largely by distro is overstating it by a lot. Mostly, distro issues are going to be based on how old their kernels are. But definitely, modern hardware is much too complex to just slap Linux on Windows (and vice versa).