[gwd]

What's exasperating is that this has been going on for literally 20 years:

> Pretty much exactly 19 years ago I got on a train to Oxford and made Mark Shuttleworth's laptop successfully suspend and resume using ACPI and that was the turning point in my entire career [1]

[1] https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/111249766634985812

10 years after that I bought a Macbook Air, and haven't gone back to Linux on a laptop since.

[pjmlp]

Windows on my case, since Windows 7, although I kept a netbook with Linux around until it died.

While I can understand random Joe and Jane are at the mercy of reverse engineering while installing a Linux distro over the weekend, I expect that anyone selling Linux laptops as OEM, to actually get the specifications and have everything working as any other hardware vendor.