[jeltz]

PipeWire made sound finally work flawlessly for me on Linux, Proton made it possible to play a ton of games, graphics drivers being stable, especially for Vulcan and Firefox enabling hardware acceleration.

Some things are worse as you note, but there have been som important improvements.

[oblio]

Is there a mainstream laptop on which Linux runs as well as Windows? I'd really want one that doesn't cost 3k+.

[erwincoumans]

ASUS - ROG Zephyrus M16 16" 240Hz Gaming Laptop runs Ubuntu 22.04 very well in my opinion: CUDA, Vulkan, Wifi, bluetooth, sleep etc. I installed Linux on a second SSD next to Windows on the original SSD. The version with NVIDIA RTX 4070 costs 1700 USD at Best Buy (the one with RTX 4090 may exceed your budget)

[gilcot]

What about Lenovo? https://www.phoronix.com/review/thinkpad-p14s-gen4-linux

[MaKey]

The Linux support for ThinkPads is pretty good I think. I've been using a T14 AMD Gen 1 for three years now with Ubuntu. The hardware is supported by the LVFS too. I'm upgrading to a T14 AMD Gen 4 shortly and will be running Linux (Ubuntu) again.

[Jenda_]

I have HP ProBook 430 G6 and I have not noticed any problems (I don't know how Windows run on this, though - never tried).

I have never tested the fingerprint reader, all other features work.

[rpmisms]

Any recent Thinkpad will do fine. The Apple Silicon laptops can't run Windows, but can run linux, so there's that, too. Also, Dell XPS laptops do very well with linux.

[NegativeK]

Dell XPS 13. Framework.