I don't think NetBSD has ever had a reputation for what they mean by "spotty hardware support" here, which is apparently uh... power management on laptops. Their links take you here: https://wiki.netbsd.org/laptops/

yes! "of course it runs netbsd" just checked, it's gone on their website. probably gone for 10 yrs alread, that's roughly when i checked last

"Oh, how the mighty have fallen."

This suggests the commenter once thought that NetBSD was mighty

Perhaps he never had such thoughts

If so, then this comment is disingenuous

There is an obvious difference between "hardware (feature) support" and "runs NetBSD"

For example I don't need X11, ACPI, audio or WiFi to "run NetSBD". I want a server not a "desktop"