On a sunny day (Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:25:13 -0400) it happened Yousuf Khan
wrote in :

Sylvia Else wrote:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2342869,00.asp

"You should also note that almost all of the newest hardware coming out
has Linux support."

I think that's overstating it, and figuring out whether the hardware one
intends to buy is supported can be a tortuous process. Life is not made
any easier by the fact that some manufacturers will completely change
the design of a board and just change the revision number.

Sylvia.

Which is why I think getting a linux laptop pre-configured with all of
the right hardware is probably the way things are going to go. The OEM
would include only hardware that had drivers in Linux already. Despite
Windows' true claim to be the best supported OS in terms of drivers,
most people rarely add things to Windows beyond simple USB storage
devices. If you get a laptop which includes bluetooth, a webcam,
built-in, you probably never need to add anything else into it. People
will use that as is, till it's time to replace the laptop.

Yousuf Khan

Totally wrong.
People buy digital cameras, they want to access those from the laptop,
maybe edit the video on it too.
Same for audio devices, headphones via USB, cardreaders for other formats,
Install new codecs, new webbrowser versions (security upgrades appear
every day), other adaptors...
There is no limit.
My advice to those, unless you are a nerd and are good in C and a few other
computer languages, and have thousands of hours time,
do NOT but a Linux version, buy Xp.