"some companies that don't seem to be implementing digital restrictions are
ASUS and Acer".
Asus works well in Trisquel exclude bluetooth and I think their bios is not a
free version. With regard to Acer, normally their wlan chipsets does not work
with Trisquel.
Live-cd is a good way to test compatible. Live-cd has already created 15
months ago and it would be better if developers will create a new version
with the latest updates and kernel.
The vendors of the libre laptops provide their laptops only with mainstream
language keyboard layouts and this is problem for many users, for instance in
Europe. The link in the following is shown Swedish/Finnish keyboard layout
that use three more keys than US keyboards
http://www.goodtyping.com/teclatFINok.png