At least you know the hardware will work and you can install your own distro (I know regular people won’t know how to do this)
I was looking for a convertible laptop during the holidays and I looked for compatibility and all of them had drivers missing, like the SD card, touchscreen, orientation sensor for tablet mode, bezel sensor for tablet mode. I ended up keeping my old laptop with mint and getting an android tablet that “just works”
At least you know the hardware will work and you can install your own distro (I know regular people won’t know how to do this)
I was looking for a convertible laptop during the holidays and I looked for compatibility and all of them had drivers missing, like the SD card, touchscreen, orientation sensor for tablet mode, bezel sensor for tablet mode. I ended up keeping my old laptop with mint and getting an android tablet that “just works”
That’s assuming the hardware vendor didn’t use a closed fork of the kernel with their own drivers hacked into it.
That’s usually costlier. It happens, but it’s not the norm.