> People who complain about Linux usually either insist on customizing it (as you noted) or run it on hardware that it doesn't work well on. Even as someone wh

> People who complain about Linux usually either insist on customizing it (as you noted) or run it on hardware that it doesn't work well on. Even as someone who has customized the hell out of my desktop, it does kind of annoy me that people act like you "just" need to customize it. "Customizable" is (often) just a synonym for "incomplete". Instead of giving you a full operating system, you have to "customize" it. Or, realistically, finish it. For example, much as I love the Sway desktop, I really don't feel like the stock package is decidedly unfinished and you need to install/make plugins to make it actually usable. > If you are willing to buy special hardware to run macOS, why not the same for Linux? Agreed. I like macOS, but macOS is a very walled-garden, and for the most part you can only run it on very specific, curated Apple hardware. Of course it works properly...they have a very finite set of hardware to test, which is untrue with Linux. If, when you buy a computer that you plan to run Linux on, you preemptively make sure that the hardware is compatible [1], then it usually works fine. When I bought my mother-in-law's Thinkbook, I made sure that the main hardware worked fine (e.g. graphics card, wifi, audio, etc.). It did, I installed Mint on there, and she seems to like it. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware Even if you don't run NixOS, this is useful; if the laptop you're buying has very few or zero hacks required, it will likely work out of the box.