I am retired from IT and I could not get anyone to even try Linux. I also owned and operated my own computer store which my son now runs. We build and sold computer for many years and I have been using Ubuntu Linux since 2005 and have use it on many many different computer. In fact I have three of them running in my home right now, one being a server, one a desktop and one a laptop. I have 10.04 on the server, 10.04 and the Desktop and I am up to 12.10 on my laptop and to be honest with you I never had a problem with CD's or DVD. Years ago I had a CD drive go bad but that was on a XP machine. I have replaced a few Hard Drives.
What I am trying to say, overall I think hardware will give you problems with any OS, but there is some hardware that is not well supported with Linux but that is the fault of the Manufacture not the OS. And until Linux becomes more main stream this problem with stay with us.
With that said, I know there are good programmers out here that when hardware hits the market they are working on drivers to get things working.
So under the title of this thread "What can Windows do that Linux can't?" the subject of this post would be Linux can do hardware but it might take longer to do it.
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