What laptops are you on?
I can guarantee you that there are at least two people in this world for whom Linux supported their hardware out of the box
There are lots of people for whom it’s true, cause there’s a lot of hardware either old and stable enough to be supported, or Thinkpad. “Old” doesn’t mean bad hardware, but it’s not everyone’s or “DO IT” hardware either.
Either way, people who say “do it” often forget to mention either the issues (both hw and sw) or which hardware they are using. Props to ggp for specifying their laptop model, but I still would like to know if sleep works for them cause that’s the first point I’m skeptical at. We can’t just logical-or all the good experiences from different people, it doesn’t work like that.
Of course working sleep doesn’t erase all the sw issues an average linux desktop user will have. But let’s be honest and not fanboy-ish.
I like linux much much more for servers and as a set of system idioms. But its Desktop side is plagued by all sorts of long-standing problems, including low quality software that breaks itself regularly or has unfixable “nuances” reasoned from buggy to delusional. The base GNU/Linux system is absolutely fine and stable and reliable (software-wise). But you can think of Modern Linux Desktop as a sort a slap-over patch that isn’t Linux spirited at all.
And when you point these out, the happy welcoming tone often changes from “it just works” to “you get what you paid for, feel free to patch” then to “it’s their project, they are free to reject patches”, then to just crickets.