Thing is, once the drivers are working fine you'll have to deal with the horrible multiple monitor support on most applications with fullscreen support. Remmina being a perfect example of something I've struggled with recently.
It's the little things that you notice when running a linux desktop. Multiple monitor fullscreen support, PPTP vpn client constantly disconnecting (when it doesn't on the OSX client sitting right next to it and the Android phone in the pocket)
Then compound those little difficulties you have with the fact you're going to have to make the decision between a sparse DE (lxde, xfce, the many boxes), a wannabe touch DE (Unity, Gnome-shell) or the cluttered mess that is KDE. I still have love and hope for Cinnamon, and hope with the newer version it will be less buggy.
Linux on the desktop frustrates me. Linux on the laptop infuriates me. As Apple cease to be an option for me on the laptop with the latest reductions in features, and Windows 8 being the most frustrating iteration of Windows I've ever dealt with, I'm starting to wonder what my ideal replacement is going to be? I really don't want to run Mint in a VM on top of Windows, but that just might be what I'm going to have to do.
The state of computers is terrible right now.