[ActorNightly]

In early 2010s this was sometimes the case.

In modern days, you can daily drive linux without issues. If you were having issues, it was most likely you were doing something wrong, or you were using a company configured laptop that the IT department didn't set up right.

[bolebob]

This is still the case. KDE is full of bugs, bluetooth does not work properly (it fails to swap between hidef to a microphone/speaker setup automatically), 4K monitors have all kinds of problems (though KDE 6 fixes quite a few), hardware decoding in firefox/chromium for videos is a horror, the stupid fan starts all the time out of nowhere (by far the most annoying intel machine behaviour, thermals in windows are much better), and battery is dead after a three-four hours max (and usually much worse than windows on the same horrible x86 hardware).

A macbook air is miles ahead, unless you confine yourself to old hardware. I moved from thinkpads + arch to mac + brew. The experience is insanely better.