I have a Lenovo laptop at home that is quite old now (A dual-core machine that I used throughout university). I am not sure which one it is, but I have been running Ubuntu on it for quite some time now, and it is actually the only of my devices that has always worked perfectly with a vanilla ubuntu installation.

Recently running 16.04 on it as well, once again an update without any issues.

Whilst on my other machines (An HP laptop and custom destkop) I always had _some_ problems with Ubuntu or other flavours of Linux. The HP laptop had the movie player problem mentioned here in the post, and had some issues with running Skype webcam/voice-chat.

The desktop had an issue of freezing up randomly, and some audio issues at first.

Currently Ubuntu is running on all these machines, but the old Lenovo laptop was the only one that in all these years worked without any issues.