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by kitsunesoba 1990 days ago
Linux laptops are massively YMMV. Some work almost perfectly out of the box while others are plagued with quirks that never seem to get fixed.

Point in case I have a circa 2008 Dell workstation laptop that runs Linux pretty well, except for some reason its volume buttons (which, as far as I can tell, send standard key codes) only work as expected under some distros running some desktop environments. It's oddly spotty for such a basic function, and last I checked there was no surefire fix for it, just an endless list of "try this".