Linux-friendly laptops

[Amnesiac]

I know it's more of a hardware-related question but are any particular brands more linux-friendly/compatible than others? I'm thinking HP, Sony or Samsung but there seem to be mixed opinions.

Thanks

[ResidentBiscuit]

I use an HP at work and at home and they both do fine. Granted right now, they both run on VMs but the one at home used to run as the only OS for awhile and did fine. I had some graphics compatibility issues trying to use Unity 3D but that doesn't affect anything important. Just couldn't get cool visual backgrounds.

[kbw]

My current employer uses a variety of Dell laptops with Linux. I myself use an i7 Dell Lattitude with Arch/Gnome3. It seems fine, all the devices work.

[naraku9333]

I wouldn't worry about brands since none are likely to officially support linux, but narrow your choices to specific models and research their compatibility.

[Cubbi]

Some brands purposefully support linux, System76 for example: http://www.system76.com/laptops/

[ETAkoG1T]

I run ubuntu from a samsung, it works great, (samsung chronos). I haven't had any problems, but I haven't used ubuntu with another computer so I wouldn't know if anything is missing. It runs smooth as silk, way faster than my windows partion!

[ETAkoG1T]

What does dude above me mean? Did you seriously make two accounts to say
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[Moschops]

That was spam.

[ETAkoG1T]

As for the question about what laptops is good with linux, any computers will do good with linux because it is so good at manege resources, in my eyes anyways. Because it is so fast it is possible to have a fast running system on a very thin computer, so if you want a laptop to surf the web and also have some style, you can have an i5 superslim laptop. The best thing of all is that you can program on it with no probs!

I prefer programming in Windows just because I like visual studio and the easy f5 to debug. I still write my code in vim, but I am not very good at it :P

[kbw]

The issues isn't how good or bad Linux is. The issue is whether it can control all the devices on the laptop, like wifi, bluetooth, ..., efficient grahpics driver and so on.

[rapidcoder]

Dell supports Linux on their laptops (RHEL) and some time ago they supported Ubuntu. Ubuntu runs fine on Dell Precision series.

[ETAkoG1T]

One thing you should know before installing linux is the lack of support for steelseries mouses, I never fixed mine. I now have a logitech though, which works fine.

[powerup777]

I have an older Macbook with Intel dual core processor that Apple no longer supports in any regard (apps/OS). I found Ubuntu works awesome on this unit, the only feature that was disabled was the remote control. That could probably be circumvented by some Linux-wiz.
With Ubuntu, now there's thousands of fully functional apps available and MS compatible Office version right off the intial install.