[bombcar]

There are many cases where hardware is not up to spec and other operating systems ignore it more or less but Linux can be a stickler.

Windows is generally most forgiving, then Mac, finally Linux.

[wtallis]

More like: Linux is most likely to try to use the features a device claims to support. Windows will often only try to use a narrower subset of those features, and that subset is what actually got tested before the product shipped. Case in point: NVMe APST, which has been a perennial source of trouble on Linux, but Windows largely ignores (at the expense of worse power management behavior).

[jldugger]

I sort of expect that Windows and Mac have more testing and overrides applied to fix buggy firmware. The find and override process just happens during pre-ship QA instead of post-launch support issues debugged over the internet.