Both Dell and System76 sell laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed.
Are you looking into some sort of certification of the sort "Ubuntu Verified"?
Are you looking into some sort of certification of the sort "Ubuntu Verified"?
At one point, Ubuntu updated the binary nvidia driver in the LTS release (the one that came preinstalled on that particular Dell model, I think 14.04). The new driver removed support for the chip in the laptop, making it unusable without some extensive fishing for old driver packages and freezing further updates.