[webbrahmin]

You have hit the nail on the head. I moved from Windows to Ubuntu many years back. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my windows machine in 2010 and by chance everything worked like magic. I purchased a new machine in 2015 without much thought and installed Ubuntu. To my horror it would not detect my Qualcomm wifi and AMD Radeon Graphics. Banged my head around to find a solution to Qualcomm wifi. But the 2gb graphics card is just a piece of silicon on my motherboard which does not work.

[greenhatman]

Ubuntu 12.04 wasn't out in 2010.

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

I'm sure they meant 10.04. As I recall, 10.04 was the first time I ever thought Linux might actually have a shot at the desktop, it was that much of an improvement. Had Canonical not gone crazy a few years later, who knows if that would have panned out or not.