I am a newbie, an academic working at a university, have used regular Unix, not the most ignorant user in the world, 15 years of LaTex experience, and I tried to install FC4 on a Dell Latitude D600.
After installation, I have no access to my NTFS partitions (I fixed this). My wireless doesn't work, and none of the online guides seem to get the ndiswrapper fix correctly installed. Sound is not working either. Fonts look weird (but well, XP also needed some modifications to get it looking OK). The modem doesn't work. Laptop power saving features do not seem to be enabled. Also, streaming audio and MP3 does not work...
Can you relate to my feelings of disappointment?