You don't have to win the hardware support lottery if you do a bit of research or buy a laptop made for it.
reply>or buy a laptop made for it.
replyWhich is usually at least 2x as much if we're talking about buying a System 76 laptop.
Windows laptops go on sale very often.
Although I will admit I have an HP laptop I brought last December that worked out of the box with Ubuntu. Nvidia drivers and all.
> Linux is great if you win the hardware support lottery.
replyThis is fairly easy to do by just not buying the absolute latest hardware. Installing something like Fedora in a 8-12 month old laptop I just can't recall last time I had issues.
I've had plenty of issues on ~2y old hardware too. Does your laptop sleep properly, do the fans scale properly, do wireless chips like Bluetooth and wifi work right, does audio (incl over BT) work, and does it switch between graphics cards if applicable?
replyHow exactly would a new Linux user know this ?
replyWhat happens when they install Ubuntu and the Wifi doesn't even work ? An experienced Linux user might figure it out.
A new user would, very reasonably, assume Linux doesn't work and reinstall Windows.
> How exactly would a new Linux user know this ?
replyIt's easy: whatever is preinstalled will be guaranteed to work reliably. Worked for me.
So sticking with Windows because that's what the computer probably shipped with ?
replyNo, buying preinstalled Linux.
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