I've got a new laptop, Dell Inspiron 3505 with AMD Ryzen 5 3500u with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx 2.10GHz quad-core, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, Windows 10 pre-installed.
I want to install the latest Ubuntu distro as a dual boot alongside Windows 10.
I've been looking at the following guide on how to do it:
How to Install Ubuntu and Windows 8 or 10 as a Dual Boot on your Dell PC
however, the Inspiron 3505 isn't listed as certified compatible with Ubuntu, either on the Ubuntu website Ubuntu certified hardware
or on the Dell website Supported Operating Systems Your Inspiron 3505 supports these operating systems:
Does this mean that the hardware on my laptop will be incompatible with an install of Ubuntu? Or is there a way around it?
Please forgive my lack of knowledge, I am a relative beginner with Linux distros and don't understand all that much about hardware compatibility with operating systems. I've previously used Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi 4B which I was using as a desktop computer and I liked using a Linux based OS, I found it a lot more smooth than Windows and I learned some command line basics and programming in Python. Also I like the open source ethos of Linux.
However, I'm stuck with this hardware compatibility issue on my laptop. I'd like to install Ubuntu as a dual boot alongside Windows 10 (which I don't like) but I need to know whether it can be done on this model of Dell Inspiron, or whether I should return it and get a more compatible one.
I didn't check the Ubuntu compatibility of the model before I bought it, I'd read somewhere that Dell Inspiron were good laptops for Ubuntu and just assumed that all of the different models would be OK, which was a bit daft of me.
Any advice and help would be gratefully received, thank you. :)