It’s handy when your video card drivers update in the background and then stop working. Then you get to learn fun commands like nvidia-smi to try and figure out what the hell is going on.

Linux is good, but there is still a pretty heavy need to get around on the command line. While I’m no fan of Windows anymore, at least you can point and click your way through a fair amount of stuff natively. Having a built-in Device Manager clone would be handy.

Also, setting up a multi-function printer/copier/scanner can be pretty ugly. Yeah only old people print, but they are still around. Tinkering with brsaneconfig4 to set up a scanner is a handful.

For most laptop users who don’t do much with peripherals and hardware, you’re pretty good. If you connect anything kinda odd, you’re going to have to work for it.

I use an online platform to connect to my car for diagnostics and the USB to OBDII cable requires specific drivers. I am thankful that the manufacturer did supply them, but I’ve had a few devices like that where it was just a dead end.