Well that's the thing, it's very individual. For me Ubuntu works 100% out of the box on a clean install (well 99.9% since I do have to install a third party hotkey driver) and Windows requires a couple of hours of installing drivers. That said, out of the box (here I mean clean install not a recovery CD/DVD) Ubuntu and just about any other Linux will support alot more hardware than Windows. Windows however will have a third party driver for pretty much anything you could buy making it more compatible.
It's more like a misnomer than a misfact, it's not the OS that has to support the hardware it's the hardware that has to support the OS.
That IS weird and I think might be a bug. Did you create a support thread for that? If you didn't I suggest you try there may be some random setting that needs tweaking.
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