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>>tonyst+(OP)
The laptop: "It’s an 11-year-old Thinkpad T420, a big ol’ thick brick of computation that I bought used a few years ago for $200."

>>Reacti+y1
Sure, but it also works perfectly on modern equipment like the Zenbook I bought last year.

>>throwa+S3
Meanwhile, my Framework Laptop that the Fedora OS team is specifically developing for has had busted microphone drivers for months.

It's all a little random on how well different internal components decide to play nice.

>>noirbo+Z4
Is it because of their switch from a realtek chip to tempo? It's broken on Windows too ... https://community.frame.work/t/no-driver-for-tempo-audio-chi...

All platforms have issues, especially with uncommon hardware combinations. But if you buy any mainstream device odds of it working in linux are probably similar to the odds of it working in windows.

For older hardware the odds are much better that it will work out of the box in linux.