Most stuff in my field of multimedia, from top notch quality items available for other platforms (Apogee stuff, UAD Apollo, Black Magic Cinema camera) to prosumer products, including many consumer stuff which only have some community drivers that don't let you use all the functionality.
If you pick and choose industries, of course you can shape arguments to suit your favourite OS. How does OSX deal with managing SCADA systems?
Or back when I was in neurology, there was EEG hardware for Win and Lin, but no mac.
I mean, you're responding to "Use lenovo as a reference model" with "looking at a bunch of other suppliers from a niche industry, it doesn't match up". It's not just apples and oranges, it's not even the same ballpark.
>The parallel to your argument is that people should blame Apple for random third-party hardware not working out of the box with OSX.
No they shouldn't blame Apple.
But they should give minus points to OS X for "compatibility" when "random third-party hardware does not work out of the box" with it.
And similarly: they should not "blame" Linux for "random third-party hardware not working out of the box" with it, but they should give minus points to Linux in the compatibility department.
Where's the contradiction? Having working trackpad, monitor, fan control, sleep/wake montherboard, soundcard, etc is not "great driver support" -- it's the bare essentials people should expect OUT OF THE BOX.
Support for third party stuff is what makes for "great driver support".
Most stuff in my field of multimedia, from top notch quality items available for other platforms (Apogee stuff, UAD Apollo, Black Magic Cinema camera) to prosumer products, including many consumer stuff which only have some community drivers that don't let you use all the functionality.