Take the tour ×  So I'm entering the business of buying and
selling laptops. For me, it's convenient to boot up a laptop in
Ubuntu to see some of the hardware still works. The screen, hard
drive, wifi, bluetooth, yadda yadda.  I think this may come
across as a software/library shopping question, but I will fire
it off anyways.  So, I want to go collect hardware information
on a per laptop basis and store it somewhere. I can use this to
debug or figure out hardware issues after something is already
sold. It would also be useful to see which hardware is
particularly common or buggy and avoid those. Or provide proper
support for them.  I have been using Linux for a while, so I
know of lshw -html and inxi. Is that all I need, or are there
any supplementary programs? It would be useful to know the BIOS
versions of various laptops too, if I can query that sort of
thing. Does lshw report correctly on computers that have poorly
supported hardware?   I should add that I would like additional
information that may be av