Gosh, I see so many people having issues like this... and get really confused, because I've ran Linux on my laptops for the past 4 years, and they've all worked completely out of the box with whatever version of Ubuntu was the latest at the time! And I don't go out of my way to pick a laptop that supports Linux, I just buy whichever fit my requirements the best.

Of course, now I'm just using a rMBP, but yeah, I wonder if I've just been very lucky?