It's a Lenovo W530 Thinkpad. It uses standard hardware that Ubuntu officially supports. Been there. Done that. Also keep in mind I've been using Linux off and on since 1999. I'm not a stranger to hardware compatibility issues and none of these problems result from that.
You're using linux from 1999 and you've problems like this: "I spent two weeks trying to make my ctrl/capslock swap stick and not reset every time the computer slept/resumed."? It's unbelievable.
