The last non Apple laptop I had was a Fujitsu lifebook with a Transmeta processor in it. I did way too much work trying to get Linux to use every bit of the hardware. Mostly researching what others had done, but also contributed to the ACPI code - half the buttons didn’t work on Linux because the factory default was broken. Windows had its own, but rather than pilfer that, someone pointed out that later lifebooks had fewer issues so I backported fixes from those, and I think invented one of my own by trying things that seemed reasonable.
I also looked at the TM specific flags that they documented, and was surprised to find some that hadn’t been enabled on Linux despite Linus still working there at the time. They looked to be useful for low power mode, and at that time I was looking for a carry-everywhere laptop with decent run time so I invested in those flags.
Turns out they didn’t do anything observable to the system. Power draw was unphased by flipping these toggles. I don’t believe those changes ever got merged.
But it was the Linux fuckery that convinced me I wanted a bask shell and a Unix CLI and just get shit done without having to fiddle all the time. I had better things to do. So I’ve been on apple since except for Pi, Docker, and work.