Available OOTB Laptops/Notebooks that Support Linux?

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Purealcatraz

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I was looking in a price range of 3-500$ for a laptop which OOTB can support Linux (Favroite distro is Mint so far) I'm starting my IT college classes and I would like to have something I can easily carry from class to class and then home with little hassle but it seems near impossible to find a pre-build linux machine for my price, and It is quite difficult searching for one and then looking up all the parts. Basically what I am looking for is something like this
(Would Prefer)
Thickness of less than 1in
4GB RAM
500GB HDD
Between 11.1" to 15.6" screen.
If anyone has any suggestions or ideas I would be happy to hear them. Appreciate any help.
 
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driver problems are way less of a thing than they were a few years ago. 99% of stuff you're liable to get in a store-bought laptops are going to be 100% supported out of the box.

If you're worried about driver hassles with GPUs, stick with a laptop that uses the Intel CPU's built in graphics. Those are all 100% supported in the kernel out of the box. Wireless drivers are also pretty ubiquitous these days, stick with a big name and it should be fine. If you're really worried get the specific chip off the manufacturer's specs page and google it real quick.
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jasonditz

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I have a Lenovo Ideapad Z580 and its never run anything but kubuntu, everything works like a charm. That's last year's model but this year's equivalent (the Z510) doesn't look like it's got anything that'd be a problem for a newish distro either. In general unless it's got something really weird in it, I would expect most things to "just work" out of the box.
 
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Purealcatraz

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I'm not going to lie, I'm new to Linux, I've been playing around with Mint in Oracle VB so my main concern is having to update drivers. I plan on Dual Booting it so I just don't toss myself directly into Linux with nothing else to use.That being said, I've seen a lot of people saying how GPU's and Wireless cards seem to be a big problem with any kind of driver support in Linux and that is my main concern with any laptop purchase.
 
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jasonditz

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driver problems are way less of a thing than they were a few years ago. 99% of stuff you're liable to get in a store-bought laptops are going to be 100% supported out of the box.

If you're worried about driver hassles with GPUs, stick with a laptop that uses the Intel CPU's built in graphics. Those are all 100% supported in the kernel out of the box. Wireless drivers are also pretty ubiquitous these days, stick with a big name and it should be fine. If you're really worried get the specific chip off the manufacturer's specs page and google it real quick.
 
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Purealcatraz

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Thank you for all the help so far, I really appreciate it and I just have one last question. Have you heard of Avatar brand laptops and desktops? I saw one with really good specs (including a 32GB SSD on top of the 500GB HDD) I haven't seen much on my them.
 
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