Probably the biggest issue you might run into with something so new would be that the kernel hasn't had time to play "catch-up" yet.
Unlike Windows, where all major manufacturers play ball and immediately supply MyCrudSoft with all relevant hardware info, along with writing up-to-date drivers ready for anything they release onto the shelves, the majority of drivers'n'stuff in the Linux kernel have had to be painstakingly reverse-engineered from their Windows counterparts.....a process which can take anywhere from a few weeks to several months, depending on how much time that particular maintainer has to devote to his 'hobby'. (Most Linux devs are NOT paid for their work, and do it simply because they want to.....but this does have limits!)
Rule-of-thumb normally says that if a piece of hardware is 6 months old or more, you're usually OK for kernel driver support. Naturally enough, since there's very little money involved in the open-source world - and you certainly haven't had to pay for your Linux distro - you are in NO position to bitch & complain just because something doesn't work.
Remember; you've not paid a dime
for it, so nobody owes
you a thing.
boughtonp's right; the easiest way is to create a liveDVD/USB of whatever distro you wish to try, and see if it'll boot & run OK. You'll soon know if the hardware and the software will "play nice" together.
Mike.
