The kind of people who would install Linux on their PC are the same people who’ll reinstall Windows to remove all the bloat manufacturers put on their laptops by default.
Whether or not the basics work well enough to go scavenge for drivers is irrelevant. The fact that I have to do it means it’s no better than modern Linux in that regard. It’ll boot and in 90% of cases it’ll just work, when it doesn’t you’ll need to install some drivers.
Historically, yeah. Nowadays (as in the last 2-3 years) I don’t really see many issues. It’s fairly solid in my experience.
And let’s be honest, Windows is a nightmare as well on many laptops. If you wipe them and start from scratch, there is a non zero chance that you’ll have to source like half the drivers manually.
Laptops have historically been a little iffy yeah. Personally I haven’t had many issues except for Nvidia optimus, but since most of them are non standard and proprietary it used to be kind of a pain. Now though it’s much better, at least on newer hardware, even my newest laptop with hybrid graphics just worked out of the box.
I almost never had Linux not boot after a fresh install, even with nVidia hardware. It happened a few times like 10 years ago and never again. What hardware are you running?
Every time I see someone write “sorry for my bad english” their writing is several times better than many of the native speakers I interact with on a daily basis.
Right, that’s exactly my point. There’s no argument to be made about Linux “not being ready” in terms of hardware support because in the worst case scenario it’s not any worse than Windows, and those worst case scenarios are few and far between.
Now, in terms of software parity, sure. There’s quite a bit of stuff that won’t run on Wine yet and doesn’t have alternatives, but this discussion was purely about hardware support and that’s solid nowadays.