Those of you who use Linux on a laptop, which laptop do you use? I’ve been thinking of buying a new laptop to replace my current ageing macbook and would love to run Linux on it.
Those of you who use Linux on a laptop, which laptop do you use? I’ve been thinking of buying a new laptop to replace my current ageing macbook and would love to run Linux on it.
If you’re just looking for basically a MacBook, I would recommend buying from one of the Linux-first vendors, like System76 (USA), Entroware (UK), Tuxedo (Germany) etc… They’ll work out of the box and you get tech support.
Disadvantage of these, is that they’re basically just Clevo laptops with some drivers added. That means, those drivers are not generally available and if you want to play around with different distros, there’s probably going to be one thing or another not properly working.
If you do want to play around with different distros, I’d also recommend a second-hand ThinkPad or another model that’s known to have good support from Linux.
If you’re looking for a powerful development laptop, with possibly the same issues as the Linux-first vendors, Dell has one or two models with Linux support.