 Permalink for comment 408601 Member since:  Compare apples with
apples, so to speak. Compare each OS under the same means of
obtaining it. Comparing them like that makes no sense as you
can't obtain them the same way in reality. If they were
available equally then the situation would be different, I
agree. Alas, it's not. Besides, even then the shops would have
to choose between possibly/probably unstable closed-source
drivers or open-source drivers which almost always lack
features.  There are a few places online where one can escape
the tyranny of not being able to choose from all possible
options.  ZaReason, System76 and even Dell, in the US, and in my
country, somewhere like this:  will pre-test Linux on the
hardware for you, and tell you the result. Where they rate the
Linux compatibility as "excellent", AFAIK they mean that all
drivers are fully functional and supported as open source.  The
fact that VG computing is a supplier in my country does not mean
that they are of no interest to everyone else, b