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>doesn't need endless hours researching for hardware compatibility or custom kernel parameters.

Yeah so this is indicative of the fact that you don't really have ANY experience with modern Linux. You can take a well supported laptop and install Linux Mint on it and everything will just work, no tweaking required. Try it sometime before making 10 year old arguments that Mac users were making back in the day and apparently still do now.

Furthermore, Id go even further and argue that as a developer, learning how to configure basic documented things should be something that you know and is fairly straightforward for you to to do, just like installing tooling you need for your development.

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My dear, I do have plenty experience with "modern" Linux, plenty of it,

https://www.idgshop.de/linuxwelt

As usual we get the answer,

"Have you ever tried distribution XYZ?"

The magical one that will sort out all problems, and then doesn't.

Im sorry but no. I have set up probably over 100 linux laptops at this point. It used to require more tweaks back in the early 2010s. Now you can get any Dell or Thinkpad, install Mint without issues.

You must be doing something wrong if you are having to tweak kernel parameters.

Would like to know which laptop that might be...

Pretty much most and Thinkpad or Dell works out of the box. You may have to change a setting here or there for some advanced things like adaptive charging, but most of the time the core OS works very well.

There is also Framework laptops, and Librem laptops that are linux first.

My current DD is an Ideapad with Manjaro, which even being somewhat more bleeding edge than Debian based ones, has not only been flawless, but things like Nvidia Optimus work straight out of the box, with external displays.

> Pretty much most and Thinkpad or Dell works out of the box.

…except for AMD ones with AMD GPU :( https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2020/linux-amdgpu-pixel-format...

or Intel ones with a particular wifi card https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203709

I however agree with you that at least for me, the Linux desktop on almost all laptops and desktops "just works". Especially when comparing with Macbooks - you have way less hardware choice there.

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