OSX works out of the box because the hardware is known in advance.
If the hardware is supported by Linux, today's distros work out of the box too, and Linux supports a lot of different hardware components, especially older ones.
If you buy a new machine which comes with Linux pre-installed, like OSX is preinstalled on Macs, you can be pretty sure that it works just as "out of the box" as OSX does.
If the hardware is supported by Linux, today's distros work out of the box too, and Linux supports a lot of different hardware components, especially older ones.
If you buy a new machine which comes with Linux pre-installed, like OSX is preinstalled on Macs, you can be pretty sure that it works just as "out of the box" as OSX does.