Even 5 years back when on a Dell laptop which came with Vista the Dell support guys worked hard to fix my problems even though the ladies on phone used to warn

Even 5 years back when on a Dell laptop which came with Vista the Dell support guys worked hard to fix my problems even though the ladies on phone used to warn me "sir, we don't support Linux on that laptop". I am on MBA now, don't know how to they treat Linux on a computer they will with Windows. >>Thinkpad faithful. Other than screen resolution The only option I had other than MBA and was ruled out for this very reason!