Everything Debian based is an absolute clusterfuck in my experience. I mainly use Fedora or Arch, never had a problem with them. Every single time I've tried using anything Debian based it's been a shitshow. Maybe that's the source of your issues.
Historically, yeah. Nowadays (as in the last 2-3 years) I don't really see many issues. It's fairly solid in my experience.
And let's be honest, Windows is a nightmare as well on many laptops. If you wipe them and start from scratch, there is a non zero chance that you'll have to source like half the drivers manually.
Nah just stuff I built myself or random laptops.
Some old Lenovo laptop with an Intel iGPU and an AMD GPU I can't remember, worked out of the box but was a bit finicky for some things. I don't remember what it was, it broke years ago.
ASUS TUF FX504GM (1060 maxq), zero issues on X11
Lenovo Legion 5 (3070 + AMD iGPU), zero issues, daily driver
Custom Desktop (1070 + Intel iGPU though I didn't really use it), some issues but i was testing Wayland years ago. Good on X11.
Custom Desktop (7900xtx + 3080), zero issues, daily driver. It used to just have a 3080, which is fairly solid on Wayland as well but not perfect.
A few other random laptops and desktop some friends owned over the years, fairly smooth on pretty much all of them.
I've found in general that anything that doesn't have an Nvidia card as the display output works fine. Wayland is getting quite usable on Nvidia as well, but there are still growing pains. Still, no black screens anywhere.
Sure I've tinkered a bit during the years, but I almost never had a black screen, much less stuff not booting, on install. I did brick my display drivers a few times (just Nvidia being a pain, mostly) but it was mostly my fault.
It may be that you've just been really unlucky. There are definitely hardware combinations out there that cause problems, but I haven't really found any particularly problematic ones up until now.
I just don't see it. I run it on all my PCs with nvidia, amd, hybrid graphics, pretty much any combination (I have too many 😅). It works. Even various friends of mine have tried it on their older setups, no problems there either.
Unless you're using something like Debian or whatever with crazy old packages, everything works for the most part. Nvidia is still not great on Wayland but it at least works now.
I'm not saying your experience isn't valid, I'm not trying to gaslight you, but I'm not sure it's representative of the average experience nowadays.
Laptops have historically been a little iffy yeah. Personally I haven't had many issues except for Nvidia optimus, but since most of them are non standard and proprietary it used to be kind of a pain. Now though it's much better, at least on newer hardware, even my newest laptop with hybrid graphics just worked out of the box.
I almost never had Linux not boot after a fresh install, even with nVidia hardware. It happened a few times like 10 years ago and never again. What hardware are you running?
No they made them fluffy :3
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/04/genetically-modified-woolly-mice-mammoth
What is the point in censoring "Fucking" if it can be read just as easily? Why even censor it at all? Also I don't get it, depicting a Molotov cocktail and inciting violence is fine but the word "fucking" is too naughty not to censor? Pick a side.
There was a different kind of railing in that room.
Every time I see someone write "sorry for my bad english" their writing is several times better than many of the native speakers I interact with on a daily basis.
Have you tried anything not Debian based?