How to find out if a laptop is compatible with linux?

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egreen722014-09-21 21:13:27

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egreen72, 2014-09-21 21:13:27

Tell me how to find out if the laptop is compatible with linux? I have a samsung R430. It would be desirable for development to get acquainted with linux.

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Sergey, 2014-09-21
@butteff

Download any distribution that you can try without installation from livecd.
For example ubuntu. If everything starts, then everything will be ok. I think that problems are unlikely with old hardware, there can only be problems with very new ones.

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Dmitry, 2014-09-21
@zmeyjr

Seems to be completely compatible. Extreme, not extreme... the main thing is the result. So take @Natann 's advice and install Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Just Ubuntu on Virtualbox.
Well, start with google on the topic of installing Ubuntu.
The main thing is to decide on the distro. Watch video reviews, try it in a virtual machine. Ubuntu derivatives have a good community, although others are not far behind. I don’t recommend anything, as they say, the taste and color of all felt-tip pens are different. But I started a long time ago with OpenSuse, then Debian, and now I like Xubuntu. My niece has been enjoying Elementary OS for almost a year now. True, at school, all sorts of presentations were required in PowerPoint ... In general, now in LibreOffice, making and bringing presentations is also good and everything will open and be shown. ;-)
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egreen72, 2014-09-21
@egreen72

but how not to be without extreme?)

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Konstantin Kitmanov, 2014-09-21
@k12th

The general algorithm is this: make a list of hardware that is in the laptop, then google any decent HCL and compare. People usually fight with video cards (Nvidia, AMD) and with wi-fi.