Nice Linux troll from 10 years ago. Since hardware is more standardized these days (Intel video / wireless / hd-audio), Linux rarely has hardware compatibility problems. Sure, there are bugs, but it's software. On my OS X box (that I finally killed off and replaced with Debian), I couldn't eject DVDs if they were in VLC's playlist. Drag to trash, nothing would happen, hit the eject button after that, nothing would happen. A reboot was the only way to get the DVD back.
Welcome to software.