I expect almost any laptop I buy will work (with minimal tinkering) with any flavor of Linux I use, but something tells me that is not the case with BSD. Are th

I expect almost any laptop I buy will work (with minimal tinkering) with any flavor of Linux I use, but something tells me that is not the case with BSD. Are they all running it on a virtual machine? Or is there a lot more people writing drivers for BSD than I imagined? The BSDs seem like they have a lot of what I love about Slackware, only more so. I'd really like to try installing one, and might do so on an old laptop this weekend.