On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt> wrote: > I'd say the method is the same as with any other laptop: pick one > specific model, look into its hardware (this[1] and a liveCD may be > handy), search for drivers, search "gento" + <specific hardware>, > follow the handbook. > You have the slight assurance those laptops are built with linux in > mind; anything else is just business as usual.
Unless they or Ubuntu are carrying out-of-mainline drivers I'd say your assurance is more than slight, but I'm not reimbursing you if for some reason it doesn't work. :) If you want to run a 2.6-series kernel on it you could have problems, but if you don't mind running a recent stable (ie what Gentoo ships by default anyway) I suspect you'll be fine. Worst case you'll just run closer to bleeding-edge on ~arch for the kernel for a few months until longterm catches up, and lots of people around here run ~arch anyway. -- Rich
