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I've had mixed results on laptops. I've never bothered to make the fingerprint reader work, that just isn't my thing. I've had decent luck with all the standard functions video, audio, storage, keyboard, mousepad, wifi on most models of Lenovo and Dell in the last decade. I've had mixed results on Asus laptops, especially the recent ones. The biggest challenge I've had is finding out ahead of time what wifi chipset is used and this has only affected me when using tools like aircrack-ng [1]. The chipset can vary even within the same make/model of laptop depending on when it was manufactured. The way I quickly test how a laptop will behave is to boot Kali Linux [2] into ram. Sometimes a sales person at a computer store would let me do this on a demo model even though they probably should not.

[1] - https://www.aircrack-ng.org/

[2] - https://www.kali.org/



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