I use one every day for work. I installed ubuntu on it and have had to fiddle with xrandr to get the screen resolution to be reasonable (but I also use xmonad

I use one every day for work. I installed ubuntu on it and have had to fiddle with xrandr to get the screen resolution to be reasonable (but I also use xmonad and installed this on a machine that was originally purchased with windows OS). So you will probably have a relatively flawless experience if ubuntu is pre-installed. It is a nice machine overall.