My single experience with trying to use Linux daily on the laptop was 10 years ago. It had an "optimus" configuration, a combination of integrated/discrete GPU.

My single experience with trying to use Linux daily on the laptop was 10 years ago. It had an "optimus" configuration, a combination of integrated/discrete GPU. I had to find instructions and resources online to get it to run for my specific model. Eventually whoever was posting these probably moved on to a different model, which meant mine would stop working correctly when I'd upgrade Ubuntu.