[linux-laptop] What distro is best for easy Laptop installation?

[Dark Shadow]

I have not paid any attention to distro's in over four years as I have
been using Linux From Scratch for that long. But I have just decided
to buy a laptop and was wondering what current distro would be best
for ease of laptop installation. One point is that it must be a 64 bit
distro it well be running on this laptop
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One distro that would be nice to know about is Ubuntu as the only
thing I know about it is that during my hours of googling for hardware
compatability is that it was mentioned specifically as a successful
install.

I prefer light distros that are not resource hungry.