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Maybe he wants to have working WiFi and monitor hotplugging and sleep mode and games and battery life that doesn't suck and...

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So he should just use Linux?

It takes very little effort to look up if something's compatible before you plop 2 grand on it.

If you have to preach something like a zealot it means it is not as good as you think it is.

Most people dont look up whether "something will work" on Windows or Mac.They just simply use the machines they buy.

Who's preaching? Doesn't get much easier than this https://certification.ubuntu.com/desktop

Completely incorrect for Mac. At least for those that want their peripherals to work.

Correct for Windows. But then they just buy the machines and complain about their issues later, hence, this subthread.

The Mac comparison is better than the Windows one but Mac is in exactly the same position as Linux here: either you use the manufacturer recommended hardware (Apple hardware or the various pre-configured Linux laptops like System76) or you spend time looking up compatibility (Hackintosh/roll-your-own Linux).

The difference is that the manufacturer-certified hardware for Macs has a giant advertising budget.

Apart from those, what else Microsoft has done for us?

All of that works on my System 76 Ubuntu 20.04. The real reason corporations use Windows is so that they can lock down the desktop to prevent users from installing tools without corporate approval. They could do it on Linux as well, but it's more difficult.

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