[regexorcist]

> Linux is great if you win the hardware support lottery.

This is fairly easy to do by just not buying the absolute latest hardware. Installing something like Fedora in a 8-12 month old laptop I just can't recall last time I had issues.

[frollogaston]

I've had plenty of issues on ~2y old hardware too. Does your laptop sleep properly, do the fans scale properly, do wireless chips like Bluetooth and wifi work right, does audio (incl over BT) work, and does it switch between graphics cards if applicable?

[Gigachad]

To be fair Windows also can't sleep properly.

[frollogaston]

Yeah that's kinda true, but Linux is worse about it. And Hackintosh is the ultimate in not sleeping. Users of both will still often claim their machine works perfectly, and when you ask about sleep, shrug and say sleep isn't needed.

[999900000999]

How exactly would a new Linux user know this ?

What happens when they install Ubuntu and the Wifi doesn't even work ? An experienced Linux user might figure it out.

A new user would, very reasonably, assume Linux doesn't work and reinstall Windows.

[fsflover]

> How exactly would a new Linux user know this ?

It's easy: whatever is preinstalled will be guaranteed to work reliably. Worked for me.

[999900000999]

So sticking with Windows because that's what the computer probably shipped with ?

[fsflover]

No, buying preinstalled Linux.