Seefra 1

Weird, Linux always worked for me on pretty much any computer I ever threw it on, apart from a issue on an old (pre nvidia-open) Asus ROG laptop where it would kernel panic sometimes when resuming from sleep when using nvdia and video going black after screen going to sleep when using the Trident driver on historical pentium 3 era machines.

Overall for the great majority of laptops linux works perfectly fine out of the box. When in doubt buy Thinkpads, those are warrantied to work well, any if there’s a quirk it will be properly documented together with it’s fix.

And optical cables need to be gold plated. Basic audiophile knowledge.