Presumably for the other things listed like power management and accessories. Webcams and finger print scanners almost universally don't work on laptops with linux.
The only issue I had with power management was a 5g modem driver that didn't want to suspend - once that's blacklisted the machine works as intended - with the fingerprint reader, webcams, and sleeping. Don't spread FUD, please.
It’s hardly FUD. It’s the reason OP listed for moving back to windows. Currently on my laptop, Linux works but there is no support for the webcam, bluetooth, suspend, finger print scanning, and thunderbolt features beyond usb 3.
It’s improving and I’m sure in a few years it’ll be working well but these are issues that have been reoccurring for me. I’ve never had a Linux laptop where the fingerprint scanner worked.
I am on a thinkpad using an external thunderbolt monitor with several peripherals linked to it. No sweat at all. Never had to install drivers for anything, webcam, wifi, bluetooth etc all works.
Linux mint has been rock solid. I've gone through three major OS updates without anything breaking.
Power management does not work at all in windows. It does not really sleep, and randomly starts spinning the fans at full blast during short times.
On linux you might have to fiddle with configuration, and get unacceptable behavior like black screen and needing a restart after wakeup, until you get it working. But at least you can do something about it.