Alternatively buy laptops that come with Linux or at least are known to be well supported. Whenever I buy a new piece of hardware of any sort I end up reading

Alternatively buy laptops that come with Linux or at least are known to be well supported. Whenever I buy a new piece of hardware of any sort I end up reading lots of spec sheets, reviews, and articles and comparing choices according to a whole range of desirable features. Making Linux support one of them hardly makes it any more complicated. If nothing else search for product category + Linux then find a list of recommendations and then google choices that look good looking for unbiased critique focusing especially on people claiming systemic flaws in design that effect all units.