What I do is buy a laptop from Best Buy or anywhere I can physically return it. Get 2 usb drives , one to create windows installation media, and one to install

What I do is buy a laptop from Best Buy or anywhere I can physically return it. Get 2 usb drives , one to create windows installation media, and one to install Ubuntu. Then ether Ubuntu works or not. Normally it does, but generally a slightly older laptop will work better as more Linux support is available. Intel is miles better here