[wmantly]

I have been using Linux on many higher end HP laptops without issue. At the moment I have HP Spectre x360 15in 2016,8th gen i7 16gb RAM, 512GB SSD and 2gb mx950 Nvidia. After installing Linux Mint 19 everything worked out of the box and i get about 6-hour of battery. I have a few older HP envy series and each of them work with out issue. The only issue i have had in the past 5years is laptops with more then 2 speakers. Linux just assumes 2 speakers and you get shit sound. This is fixable with jack-reset.

[lecarore]

Also using hp here, i used 2 models (burnt the first one by connecting it to a cheap hdmi adapter while on battery). They're not the best but you get a great laptop for 600€. Nvidia graphic card handling needs tweaking on Ubuntu or it stays constantly at max power. I never tried to get the fingerprint reader to work. The rest works fine. I really like having 3 external screen outputs (vga + hdmi + usb c) to make a triple screen setup without needing an adapter