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Hardware support on odd bits of laptop hardware is always a bit ropey on any Linux distro. The manufacturers only release drivers for windows. Can't blame them.

It's the nature of open source software that there's any where from zero to a thousand different ways of doing the same thing. Making the average a lot higher than one.

Ubuntu is about the best known and best supported there is. Command line is the primary method of interaction by choice. It's standardized (as far as anything is) and it's easier to support being just text, easy to copy and paste.

I think about half my job boils down to "monkey Google, monkey paste". I'm a Linux admin, in case you hadn't guessed.