I'll add my reply from another thread(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12807826 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12807826): I have been using the Dell

I'll add my reply from another thread(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12807826 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12807826): I have been using the Dell Developer Edition (Precision 5510) since April. There were a few hiccups because of some driver issues related to their USB-C dock (Correct me if i'm wrong, but I guess this problem was not limited to just their linux laptop?) Ever since upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04 things have been pretty smooth. I believe any distro with a 4.4 series kernel or higher will behave pretty well. Before this I had a Thinkpad T series (The best keyboard experience on a laptop that I have come across), and I never had any problem with running any distribution of Linux. In Summary: I think you cannot go wrong with either a Thinkpad or the Dell Developer edition. They are well made machines with good support for linux.