My wife had an HP laptop going on a decade ago that was terrible with Linux. But we've also since then had three Dell Inspirons and a Thinkpad that all work per

My wife had an HP laptop going on a decade ago that was terrible with Linux. But we've also since then had three Dell Inspirons and a Thinkpad that all work perfectly fine. I think Linux has been perfectly adequate for "browses the internet" level users for quite a while.