Seriously un-true. Just this weekend I set up a friends old, aging laptop with a fresh Ubuntu Studio install, and .. everything just works. Video playback, drivers for everything. Seriously! Even multi-screen (i.e. projector) extensions, and so on. We watched movies with it all weekend, just plain ol' Ubuntu Studio.
So, anecdotal stories are yarns, yo.
(I say this as an Ubuntu and macOS developer, thus user: its functionally a point where Ubuntu could un-seat macOS in terms of ease of use, on .. admittedly a very much wider range of hardware.)
As for the MacBook hegemony, I point my wavy hands at things like the GPD Pocket, and its future off-spring.
So, anecdotal stories are yarns, yo.
(I say this as an Ubuntu and macOS developer, thus user: its functionally a point where Ubuntu could un-seat macOS in terms of ease of use, on .. admittedly a very much wider range of hardware.)
As for the MacBook hegemony, I point my wavy hands at things like the GPD Pocket, and its future off-spring.