It’s what happens when all the desktop hardware is designed for just one single OS’s ecosystem. Running something else can be touch and go if you happen to have something slightly exotic, even if it has great specs.
It sucks, but it’s still how the market works now.
And don’t think that the few little companies selling Linux computers change anything. They just hand pick the Windows hardware that’s known to work well.
All in all, it has gotten better though. Nowadays, Linux is acknowledged by a lot of hardware companies. They design for Windows, but a number of them will make an effort to release some sort of data, or driver, or something to get the Linux side going. Back in the 90s, it certainly wasn’t as easy.
It’s what happens when all the desktop hardware is designed for just one single OS’s ecosystem. Running something else can be touch and go if you happen to have something slightly exotic, even if it has great specs.
It sucks, but it’s still how the market works now.
And don’t think that the few little companies selling Linux computers change anything. They just hand pick the Windows hardware that’s known to work well.
All in all, it has gotten better though. Nowadays, Linux is acknowledged by a lot of hardware companies. They design for Windows, but a number of them will make an effort to release some sort of data, or driver, or something to get the Linux side going. Back in the 90s, it certainly wasn’t as easy.