> I'm sorry but that OS is barely capable of outputting a stable HDMI signal, god help you if you are on a laptop with external monitor.
You may have had particularly bad luck with poorly supported hardware, but I don't think this is a normal experience.
I've been using Linux exclusively on desktops and laptops (with various VGA, DVI, DisplayPort, HDMI, and PD-powered DisplayPort-over-USB-C monitors and TVs since 2002 without any unstable behavior or incompatibility.
Most likely. I think laptops are particularly gnarly, especially when they have both an apu and a discrete gpu. While manufacturers use windows' amenities for adding their own drivers and modifications so that they ensure that the OS understands the topology of the hardware (so that the product doesn't get mass RMA'd), there's no such incentive to go out of your way to make Linux support it.
You may have had particularly bad luck with poorly supported hardware, but I don't think this is a normal experience.
I've been using Linux exclusively on desktops and laptops (with various VGA, DVI, DisplayPort, HDMI, and PD-powered DisplayPort-over-USB-C monitors and TVs since 2002 without any unstable behavior or incompatibility.