This. I feel this so much. I need a machine that works for work, and not something that I need, as you said, needs 37 open tabs to figure out the WiFi situtaion. I had a Dell 5558 before this, an absolute unit of a machine that worked so well with Ubuntu. The only issue I had with it was on days when I felt daring and tried to hack different versions of CUDA on it. Otherwise, it was a solid machine that I've now turned into a Linux box for my home setup.