[cm2187]

But the drivers problem isn't really behind them. I just purchased a lenovo laptop after reading similar comments noting the progress of linux desktop, and can't get the laptop to connect to an external monitor, despite the device being on ubuntu's certified list.

[washadjeffmad]

If you post your model laptop on the Ubuntu forums or on reddit.com/r/linuxquestions with your issue, you'll likely get either a solution or enough information to know how about soon support will be added for your device. It's often a solved problem just with no upstream patch yet.

[cm2187]

Thanks. I'll give it a try.

[DanBC]

Plenty of windows machines, with MS logo stickers, have terrible windows drivers. Or have drivers that sort of work in Microsoft Windows 8.1 with Bing but not in Windows 10.

[ams6110]

Graphics adapters and WiFi are still the two things you have to really pay attention to if you are buying a new PC with the intent of running anything other than the OS it's delivered with.

[zxcvcxz]

I'm 100% positive that for every single instance of Linux having some driver issue, I can find 10 times the amount of issues on Windows through a simple google search.

Multi-monitor setups not working on windows 10:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1255544-windows-10-10074-n...

answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-start/win-10-wont-recognize-multiple-monitors/fb5c5f33-b9e7-4158-ab82-833a9595e466

https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-do...

http://superuser.com/questions/947819/multiple-monitors-brok...

So yeah we can go on all day about the driver issues in Linux or we can go on all decade about the driver problems on Windows.

I my self bought a brand new laptop from dell with Windows 10, the laptop would not wake from sleep the first time I opened the lid, I had to close it again and re-open it every time. When it did wake up the wifi wouldn't work.

Driver issues are a common occurrence on Windows and in my experience more common on Windows than Linux.

[cm2187]

No usually when you buy a laptop, it pretty much works out of the box. Now there might be some smaller compatibility issues but not some core feature simply not working like this.