What concerns me is that it is quite difficult to avoid buying nvidia cards. That is all the stores have… it must be some sort of a selling point.?
Even refurbished computers are either onboard graphics for the cheap ones , or nvidia for the dearer ones.
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I have yet to find any… and I install linux professionnelly … occasionally I have difficulty with secure boot options to get it to boot to a usb and have to fiddle with the bios to get it to work and once had a laptop who would not boot to mint so had to install debian then it let me install mint (never worked out why)
Originally I used mate version as a standard but for the last 3 or 4 years moved on to lmde and never had hardware issues with any system.
Now I do around 1 new install a week but over the years done well over 300 without issues
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It is because you standardize your choice of distros. A lot of so-called hardware issues are deficiencies in particular distros. Avoid them.
The distro with the widest range of architecture versions is NetBSD, not Linux.
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For any commercial venture you need to think about support offered, ease of use, compatibles, being a one man band I want to make sure its going to work. Plus mose users are coming from windows so want a look and feel similar, menu bottom left, max, min top right, chrome, firefox and libreoffice etc. Mint offers these plus if they ask me a question can get a answer quick
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@berninghausen and @Sheila_Flanagan 
Thanks for your kind words, Bill. 
They mean a lot to me.
Your welcome, Sheila.
Judging by your way of writing, I would never have thought that:
I´m glad that all of this doesn´t matter in our forum.
Many greetings from Rosika
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" Doesnt work" is a bit vague, lets break it down
- really fails to operate no matter what we fiddle in the config
- does not work out of the box, but can be rescued with varying degrees of effort
- works at install but keeps falling over with use
- works well until some over adventurous user misconfigures it
- works forever like an immutable distro.
Now which one of those did we mean?
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Using Bluetooth is an endless frickery.
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Never for me in mint, plug an adapter and use it, or built in never an issue, guess depends on your linux version or adapter
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Hi @callpaul.eu that it definitely does. LM is known to work with most everything. I use it on one desktop and have for about 4 years now. But finding a WiFi adapter with bluetooth that supports Linux is not that simple.
I just built an AMD computer to replace the dead motherboard in my old one. I did not even know there could be such a thing as “Windows” only wifi cards. Ordered it without seeing that and wifi worked instantly. But could not get bluetooth to work. Finally saw on my Amazon order of it that the end of the description states “Windows Only.”
So I returned it and got one that several reviewers said they had no issue plug & play in Linux. They failed to say which distro and I can bet it was LM. Only one reviewer said something that made no sense to me, but it had something to do with having to use a USB header on the motherboard to plug this one in and without removing ONE pin, bluetooth would not work.
I have it plugged in where the other one was and instant wifi, but still no bluetooth. It will take a lot of effort to resolve this since Gigabyte did not exactly give much instructions and no one wants to help Linux users on their forums. 
My mom’s usb webcam is not being recognized in Linux Mint. Not a biggie as it’s a laptop.
But depending on the hardware, there can definitely be issues. Just read my thread where on MX Linux the sound had always worked and one day, could never get it back. Finally had to use an older Clonezilla image to get my sound back.
The joys of using different Linux distros. But through the effort, I often learn new things!
Sheila
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I dont understand why you are trouble free and everyone else have issues.
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I cannot answer that. I very rare use command line. I just really plug and play. Think its wrong to say everyone more like some have issues. Even material marked windows only just work,
Perhaps I am very lucky.
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Call it luck, but not using something isn’t the same as having something not working. My main computer doesn’t work with wifi or bluetooth, mostly because it has no wifi or bluetooth hardware. Since it does have a Cat 5 receptacle, wife isn’t necessary. And I have no bluetooth peripherals, so I don’t care.
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Many would argue that … but guess you mean WIFI …
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Me too.
When I ditched Windows, my that time hardware was well supported by Linux.
Since then when I get something, I try to make sure, it will work with Debian 
If my that-time-hardware would have problems with Linux, probably I had never switch, just make the conclusion, Linux is something that does not work.
Just think of @Skywalker71 and his advanture with his awkward hardware.
Thanks God, that was not the case with me, and now being on Debian, Linux saved me a visible amount of money during the years (which I needed to spend elswhere, so I’m still not that rich 
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Some people, like you and Paul, are simply wise enough or experienced enough to cope with Linux. That may merely mean knowing when to avoid things or it may mean being clever.
I am not trying to make out that successful linux users are in any sense elite, but it is obvious they are able to apply themselves to computer issues.
For people without those traits there is still a chance of succeeding with Linux, as long as they are willing to learn.
There are no barriers from the open-source end. Thing like race, gender, age, religion, or politics do not enter into it.
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Think that is the key debian works best … thats why I dropped mate and moved to lmde
I thought long and hard about why and what i have done or been using. Most of my clients are on older boxes, leave windows because of virus issues, not able to run new version of windows, and I recycle kit. So I will claim memory from and old box and use it for a upgrade to another, bluetooth keys and wifi keys the same, hard drives reformatted checked and linux installed.
It is rare i buy new kit and never tried to buy to resell so all my repairs are on older models where the technology has been around the block several times like me.
Occasionally clients have bought new disks or memory for me to fit but again on older boxes.
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I’m never too old to fatfinger something.
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I had to look it up. Do you mean a typing mistake?
I do that at the rate of about 10 per line.
I dont believe I have ever issued a wrong command because of that… flw.
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Maybe it’s an Americanism. I have to blame my fingers–my brain would never confuse wife and WIFI.
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I have to say that I resolved my non-working BT on the new WiFi adapter in my new pc build. I don’t know if I did not have it all the way in, but I moved it to the next USB header, ensured it was fully seated, and rebooted.
I am currently using Feren OS on this computer, which I use only for my mom’s stuff. (Until 2020, Feren OS was based on Linux Mint; now on Ubuntu)
It instantly connected a bluetooth speaker–plug and play.
So in this case, probably Linux was not to blame. LOL!
Sheila
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