What death? What are you all talking about? There's nothing worse when user comes up to me and asks me is linux (Debian for example) ready for my laptop? Why shouldn't it be ready? It's actually you who with stories like this one are trying to make things up, I've been using linux on laptops for ~5 years now, first distro I actually used on my laptop ~5 years ago was Slackware. Now if that doesn't pull some "strings" inside of your head I don't know what does. Stop these absolutely ridiculous stories. Linux is ready for all possible platforms, it's you who's not ready.

Oh really. Maybe few years ago, and where central europe are you excatly?