lol, this sounds exactly right. Vertical integration in computing is a feature, not a bug. It's amazing windows can do what it does on virtually -any- hardware.
I do wish Linux distros had some kind of "guaranteed hardware" support, where if you buy exactly the right components, it'll be a totally seamless experience
1. Frame.work looks to be all about modularizing laptop hardware, but it doesn't have particular support for any linux distros, and a quick glance at the forums (https://community.frame.work/c/framework-laptop/linux/91) looks like people are having the same compatibility issues.
2. Dell supports an Ubuntu that was released in March 2023.
3. "on my Lemur Pro 10, the touchpad didn't work on Linux Mint out of the box."
4. Works perfectly on "Kubuntu," which... is great! Vertical integration!
> It's amazing windows can do what it does on virtually -any- hardware.
Not disagreeing, but I think one of the major defining factors behind this is that most OEMs specifically design their hardware and drivers to work with Windows first. If they did the same for Linux instead, suddenly Linux would start to work with everything. Because having each individual piece of hardware support Linux has a much higher success rate than hoping an incomplete sweep over the available hardware by Linux will have covered everything that makes up a particular machine
I do wish Linux distros had some kind of "guaranteed hardware" support, where if you buy exactly the right components, it'll be a totally seamless experience