Is Ubuntu compatible with my laptop

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Does Ubuntu work on laptops, and if so, which download do I choose?

Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! Possible duplicated What are the system requirements for each flavor of Ubuntu Desktop?. — Braiam, Sep 20 '13 at 15:08
Short answer: yes, and use 32 or 64 bit according your laptop specs. And see http://askubuntu.com/q/206407/176889 and the linked question. — belacqua, Aug 06 '14 at 15:49
In rare cases your laptop may fail to run Linux due to incompatible graphics card driver. Try Live ISO and run hw-probe to check devices compatibility: https://github.com/linuxhw/hw-probe — linuxbuild, Apr 13 '18 at 14:04

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 20 '13 at 14:54

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Ubuntu runs perfectly fine on laptops. If your laptop isn't very old, you should download the Ubuntu Desktop 64 bit release, which you can get here

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 20 '13 at 14:54

Yes, Ubuntu works on all common laptops.

If your laptop is less than a few years old, choose the 64-bit version. Only choose the 32-bit version if it's a really old computer.
If you want a very stable computer and very good support, choose the LTS (long term support) releases. The newest is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
If you want to have the newest version, then Ubuntu 13.04 is the one to choose. Ubuntu 13.10 will be released in a few weeks.

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 20 '13 at 14:56

Ubuntu is of course compatible with laptops. You can choose every ubuntu version best fitting would be the Desktop variant. Both 32-bit and 64-bit work.

If you don't have a diskdrive you need an usbdrive and follow the instructions link on http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop.

Whether you want 13.04 or the 12.04LTS version depends on you. Both should be completely fine.

Is Ubuntu compatible with my laptop

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