My old ASUS laptop (must have been from 2011/2012) ran nicely on both Ubuntu and Arch out of the box. My only needs to tweak stuff manually were 1) installing B

My old ASUS laptop (must have been from 2011/2012) ran nicely on both Ubuntu and Arch out of the box. My only needs to tweak stuff manually were 1) installing Bumblebee (2 lines of bash) and 2) tweaking some PulseAudio settings so my crappy USB headset would work well with Skype. I just got a new ASUS ROG laptop, and so far my experience has been almost the same with Ubuntu. The new issues were that 3) that while the key backlighting works fine, the screen brightness buttons don't work (although the GUI controls do) and 4) touchpad drivers weren't set up with any way to do a MMB click.