hw support? what kind of hardware? first party support for gaming accessories is far from great, but unless you want to do macros on your gaming hardware with wayland, the rest for a regular user is pretty much fully covered
Imagine if a cellphone required you to open a terminal to configure your touchscreen or the sleep states.
It’s that bad for a newbie.
Neither windows or android have ever required me to use terminal to set them up.
Well I do, the first thing I'm running on a fresh Windows is a Windows debloater script so ironically I'm using the terminal faster after setup on Windows compared to something like PopOs.
It's funny since it's the kind of manual setup you had to do 10 years ago for Linux distributions and now it's the opposite.
+ if you are not using winget or wingetui you are missing out
secondly - microsoft has been removing stuff from the control panel and either moving it to registry only or to the new settings on a random place for quite some time now and figuring out where some items went can be painful
enabling s3 sleep? was only in registry for a while defering windows feature updates/new windows versions? gpo or registry - is that any better than a command line? autoreboots same thing and many others
also when huge features updates came out couple years ago, some of my settings got reset, so having a script that can return my pc to a desired state is prefferable to fiding all those settings again
GPUs are still in the "check some site if it works before you buy" territory and I hear nvidia is stil kinda adversarial.
The second biggest one is tablets and 2 in 1 laptops. It's a full computer form factor that has piss poor support, albeit you still get a linux subsystem with win11 and chromeOS.
On minor stuff, trackpads aren't great. TBF Apple set the bar so high all other platform become disappointing, but it should be mentionned.
Even in spite of the infamous schizophrenia that's been evident in Explorer since Windows 8 and 10, it's still more consistent and reliable than Linux DEs.
Doing software decoding is just silly waste of electricity.
I know, you can achieve it, in some browser, but not the other, may be.