Ok yeah. It sounded like you had thrown some stock distros and had issues but it sounds like you use things, I assume, that heavily modifies windows and you have to do other heavy mods in linux that break things but windows handles the mods. You hear 8 distros and driver issues and start to think there has to be hardware issue. I have a pretty simple setup overall and even I have a old laptop running windows although its mostly due to laziness and cost. I know what I have to do but have been lazy about doing it plus I need to buy a new drive.
Ok yeah. It sounded like you had thrown some stock distros and had issues but it sounds like you use things, I assume, that heavily modifies windows and you have to do other heavy mods in linux that break things but windows handles the mods. You hear 8 distros and driver issues and start to think there has to be hardware issue. I have a pretty simple setup overall and even I have a old laptop running windows although its mostly due to laziness and cost. I know what I have to do but have been lazy about doing it plus I need to buy a new drive.