I haven’t had compatibility issues with Linux on my workstations since years, maybe even a decade. Last time I had issues was when the support for wireless NICs was lacking (remember ndiswrapper?) and once or twice with nvidia drivers. But overall my experience with Ubuntu on PC has been okay.
The story is different on laptops though. Even to this day I still have lots of problems getting common hardware devices working correctly on laptops. Even after spending hours of tweaking. Not to mention Linux power management for laptops is still not good, although it’s getting better. I think if you’re planning to run Linux on laptops these days without having to spend time on tweaking is by getting yourself Thinkpads or Dell XPS and slap ubuntu on it. I wouldn’t bother installing Linux on any other laptops unless I really want to tinker with it.
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I haven’t had compatibility issues with Linux on my workstations since years, maybe even a decade. Last time I had issues was when the support for wireless NICs was lacking (remember ndiswrapper?) and once or twice with nvidia drivers. But overall my experience with Ubuntu on PC has been okay.
The story is different on laptops though. Even to this day I still have lots of problems getting common hardware devices working correctly on laptops. Even after spending hours of tweaking. Not to mention Linux power management for laptops is still not good, although it’s getting better. I think if you’re planning to run Linux on laptops these days without having to spend time on tweaking is by getting yourself Thinkpads or Dell XPS and slap ubuntu on it. I wouldn’t bother installing Linux on any other laptops unless I really want to tinker with it.