I use Fedora on my Thinkpad T470s and my fingerprint reader and WAN card do not work. I got the fingerprint reader to work by following lengthy tutorials which do include custom repos and manual editing of the PAM configuration. The WAN card is just dead in the water.
Even getting the fingerprint reader to work would be to complicated for at least 90% of PC users. And it could break with any update as it is a custom driver which doesn’t get updated anymore
Yeah, but with Laptops there will always be a time you have to open up the terminal and punch in 20 commands from a sketchy tutorial from 2015 to maybe get your fingerprint reader to work. How realistic is that for the 90% of user population which do not work in IT?
Linux has a host of there problems, like checking if your laptops hardware is compatible. Which isn’t a thing for Windows.
Having to chose a distro also sucks. You have to make pro and con lists and shit. With this distro my WAN card might work, but this distro has more of the programs I need on there package manager and this distro has newer packages but fewer…
This is the point most users quit Linux, before Installation
Nobody said a word about distro hoping so I don’t know what your point is