The "but my sound drivers" schtick is just half-remembered sneery nerd shit from 20 years ago at this point, anybody who goes into the routine now has absolutely no idea what they're talking about but wants you to think they do.
I can speak for exactly one brand of tablet (Ugee) that I sought out that was officially supported on Linux by the company and it works fine. I have absolutely no idea about any kind of generic tablet driver solution.
I think I had problems with a USB Wi-Fi adapter years ago that kept me from migrating to a Linux desktop 8 years ago instead of 4. It was a total piece of Chineseium Wifi adapter anyway. Gave me issues in Windows at times too.
Like the other said, I've heard about Nvidia issues, but I don't think I've tried Linux on an Nvidia system.
I bought a little tiny USB wifi thing for a desktop a few months ago and it plugged in and worked out of the box with no drivers or configuration. I've never had a single Nvidia driver problem and I've set up multiple systems with different Geforce cards in the last few years.
I actually took a bit of time I had free this afternoon and actually pulled the trigger on putting Linux on my laptop. It's a Microsoft Surface of all things. It's working fine after a couple manual things specific to making the touchscreen work on a Surface. I didn't even spend an hour. I've still got some minor software to set up, but I don't use that for much really so it will happen in time.
The "but my sound drivers" schtick is just half-remembered sneery nerd shit from 20 years ago at this point, anybody who goes into the routine now has absolutely no idea what they're talking about but wants you to think they do.
It really isn't, I had huge issues with wifi drivers on a raspberry pi that were fixed by turning it off for 24 hours and coming back recently.
Nvidia has entered the chat.
Many of my drivers, like with art tablets barely work on Windows. I have zero expectation that they would work on some Linux distro.
I can speak for exactly one brand of tablet (Ugee) that I sought out that was officially supported on Linux by the company and it works fine. I have absolutely no idea about any kind of generic tablet driver solution.
I think I had problems with a USB Wi-Fi adapter years ago that kept me from migrating to a Linux desktop 8 years ago instead of 4. It was a total piece of Chineseium Wifi adapter anyway. Gave me issues in Windows at times too.
Like the other said, I've heard about Nvidia issues, but I don't think I've tried Linux on an Nvidia system.
I bought a little tiny USB wifi thing for a desktop a few months ago and it plugged in and worked out of the box with no drivers or configuration. I've never had a single Nvidia driver problem and I've set up multiple systems with different Geforce cards in the last few years.
Yeah, that was years ago.
I actually took a bit of time I had free this afternoon and actually pulled the trigger on putting Linux on my laptop. It's a Microsoft Surface of all things. It's working fine after a couple manual things specific to making the touchscreen work on a Surface. I didn't even spend an hour. I've still got some minor software to set up, but I don't use that for much really so it will happen in time.