Your probably not going to get any better support from Lindows then anything else.
Linux is linux is linux. All the different distros are for is just the different packaging and specific setups. Each is about the same, with different roles.
Now if you had a lindows-laptop then it would be easy to set up because everything with that laptop works well. Laptops are difficult to support in linux because pretty much each one is different and it's common to use semi-generic hardware and then modify it, and then not tell anyone about it. As long as they make sure it works in windows then most manufacturers couldn't give a flying F*** about any linux support.
That's what makes it difficult. And since each manufacture does different things and supports linux in different ways then it's a crap shoot that any laptop you randomly find will work easily with linux with little difficulty.
IBM and one other major company (HP I think) actually released pre-installed Linux OSes on their laptops as a replacement option for windows. (I beleive that IBM laptop was the T21 model, the 800mhz to 1ghz P3 model IIRC...)
However it sucks for us because the way windows liscencing scemes work is that you get penalized (increased prices for your windows liscencing) if you sell computers that have no OS pre-installed. (Used to be anything not-windows, but MS got busted on that with the anti-trust stuff, so now it's no-os-liscence penalty)
So for example if HP sells liscence-less laptops for linux users, and Gateway doesn't, then MS raises the price on HP, and since 90% of the market is still windows users, then HP is at a price competative disadvantage with Gateway when it comes to price and profit margins. That's why you never see a "OS-delete" option at places like Dell.com.
So that, combined with the naturally heavily propriatary nature of Laptops/notebooks (like Intel's centrino, with the wireless setup that runs in software ala winmodems), and the industries apathy towards linux users makes it very hard to get a random laptop working on the first try.
Most server hardware works well with Linux. Linux is common nowadays in server rooms, so manufacturers make sure that servers and their hardware generally works well with linux. It's getting pretty common for workstations, were it's replacing Unix and giving traditionally not-strong unix player a path to high-end unix stuff, so more and more workstation-level stuff works well with linux.
Now the idea is to get Linux common on corporate desktops. MSDOS got popular at home because most computer people used Dos at work so they bought computers with DOS, instead of the better (IMO) Mac OSes. So Linux people are aiming at corporations.
then after that the home users, because then people using linux at work will want to be able to use it at home.
Also after it becomes popular at the corporate desktop then more and more business class laptops will be supported, then it will simply be easier to support most of your inventory that way.
But for right now if you know you would want to try out linux, there is hardware that works very well with linux, but you need to do a bit of extra research ahead of time. There isn't anything magical about windows that makes it easy to configure hardware, it's just that it has better OEM support. On hardware that supports linux, linux is a breeze to install and it works fast and correctly from the first get-go.