[valleyman]

I feel like almost any laptop will work with Linux. Most just happen to come pre-installed with Windows.

[tomlu]

I find that's not necessarily true. Laptops have a more diverse set of hardware, so things like sleep/hibernation sometimes don't work out of the box.

[espinchi]

Configuring the drivers for some hardware can be a huge pain, or require being quite an expert user. Wireless cards are usually the worst, in my experience.

[collyw]

Wireless cards used to be an issue 7 or 8 year back. Are they still? I haven't seen any problems for a while....

[kelnos]

Yup. Anything with a recent Broadcom chipset can be a pain.