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There are some things that simply do not work under Linux because of lack of driver support. An example is fingerprint readers. I agree that most x86 laptops are usable under Linux.



Fingerprint reader works fine on mine. But then I bought Lenovo because they support their hardware including making drivers for their fingerprint readers.


It's a hit and miss unfortunately. On my Lenovo Yoga 920, it doesn't work for example because there is no driver support. Similary on my Acer laptop too.


> On my MacBook M3, Windows doesn't work. Similarly on my Chromebook too.

I mean, if it isn't a supported platform that's hardly the operating systems fault. However there are plenty of systems that do have drivers and are supported.

The original quote was that the best supported is WSL, and that is not true.




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