Wrong, again. I bought a new laptop in March with 8G RAM, dual 500G HDD (and HW RAID), nVidia 460M graphics, wirelss, bluetooth, USB 3.0, and a core i7 CPU.
Linux runs on it perfectly, with no driver issues at all.
Perhaps you buy sub-optimal laptops?
How the hell am I wrong? Fact: I had a new laptop—thinkpad which was loaded for it’s day. The SATA driver had issues at first, but I got that worked out. Then the wireless driver was non-existent. Had to go hardwire.
Now how am I wrong? I installed Ubuntu. Either it had the driver and worked or it didn’t. It didn’t work...but that means I’m wrong. See that’s what I mean...Linux isn’t ready for primetime yet.
But go on keep telling youself everyone else is wrong when linux fails. Let’s put the technology first and the people last-—and Linux will continue to be in last place on the desktop.
Also if ubuntu is ready out of the box you may want to read this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1071920&mode=linear
Why is this even needed if it’s ready for primetime. Yeah, I don’t see common users going through this to get their network working. or even this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper