[flukus]

Ubuntu 17.04. Is that recent enough for you?

I've tried antergos, red hat and a couple of others, all with similar issues. Many I didn't get far with because I simply couldn't read the login screen. Antergos doesn't even have user switching working out of the box but it was the only one that supported my graphics card until very recently. I used the gnome variant of each.

[to3m]

This has always been my experience too. I've installed Linux irregularly numerous times over the years and it's never worked 100% properly on any PC I've tried it on. It suffers I guess from having to run on the same wide range of hardware as Windows does, but with a testing and driver development budget of around 50p and some bits of fluff... still, when it doesn't work, it's my time that gets sucked up trying to fix it, and I'm unapologetic about being unhappy about it.

Things are improving compared to the past, though, because my latest install (Ubuntu 16.04 on my desktop PC) required minimal setup effort and only suffers from these problems:

1. volume control keeps popping up for no reason, and the sound stutters each time that happens

2. using 2 x NVidia GPUs disables XRandR, so some things don't work when I've got a 3-monitor setup

3. for reasons unknown, I can't get 2560x1440 on my 27" monitor (yes, I know, you can change the timings using XRandR...)

4. any time I click and drag in Firefox, Firefox crashes instantly

5. something crashes on startup on every boot (and, yes, I dutifully submit the autogenerated bug report)

However LAN+wifi+3D work, and audio has proven sufficient for basic testing. Things could have been a lot worse.

(Somebody on reddit told me "You have broken hardware or you're too incompetent and shouldn't be anywhere near any computer whatsoever". Well, everything runs fine in Windows... so, ouch.)

[qplex]

So if your machine/os/whatever does not run properly you might either fix it yourself or pay somebody else to fix it.

But really, no need to complain about the nice things that you got for free.

[bitexploder]

Ubuntu 16.04 or Fedora are likely to work better than 17.04. Regardless there is still hardware that does not have the best compatibility. Ubuntu does handle individual high DPI displays well though.

[flukus]

I've got the new line of radeon graphics card. 16.04 only supported some <1080p resolution, 16.10 supported 1080 and 1080p landed in 17.04. Red hat was a similar story. HDMI sound doesn't work with any of them.

It was quite frustrating to read about ATI's new open source drivers, purchase that hardware explicitly because of that and still have it not work, but it's nice that it's improved so much too.

[bitexploder]

Ahh... yeah it is still easy to fall in the cracks. When you get a good system and everything works it is beautiful, when it doesn't, you will be spending quality time with kernel parameters and resources like the Arch Linux wiki. I had a miserable time troubleshooting i915 on my Dell XPS 13" (latest edition). Very frustrating to have an officially supported Dell laptop with Ubuntu that doesn't even work right out of the box.