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.

  • federico3@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    TUXEDO Pulse 15. They are not a big faceless corporation and seem to care about users.

  • sacredbirdman@lemmy.ml
    1·
    3 years ago

    I’ve been running linux on Asus Zephyrus G14. It works great, battery life is okayish (like 4-6h).

    Pros:

    • Good display
    • plenty of processing power
    • no webcam

    Cons:

    • had to replace one of the fans under warranty
    • it has no pg up/down keys
    • no webcam
  • blank_sl8@lemmy.ml
    1·
    3 years ago

    Buy purism system76 or framework to support official Linux hardware, else buy thinkpad for high quality and generally good Linux support

  • pereputty@lemmy.ml
    1·
    3 years ago

    I didn’t even know that the thinkpad was such a popular choice for Linux, but I bought a used x121e thinkpad laptop a while back because I needed something small for school. Windows was horrendous on it, so that’s how I got into Linux! Even on this old and not very powerful hardware, Linux Lite and Lubuntu ran quite nicely, but recently I switched to a very barebones arch install which is very streamlined and lasts an hour longer than my Linux lite install. So even a shitty laptop will work very well (especially with an SSD), which is great for your wallet!

  • inediblePotato@lemmy.ml
    0·
    3 years ago

    A few months ago I bought a Gigabyte Aorus 15g (intel 10th gen), made in Taiwan, and are relatively more open with visitors/reporters than their mainland China counterparts. Very happy with it so far. Runs ubuntu/debian out of the box flawlessly. Nvidia prime-select allows to run games with high FPS with no compromises, or gpu codes in python/matlab, and use the intel gpu for other things to get all day use out of the massive battery. The keyboard has made me a convert to mech-keyboards. The laptop itself is well made, metal, rigid. They don’t sell direct in the EU but I eventually found one with the right components and keyboard layout. If you are in the EU (https://geizhals.eu/) or (https://tweakers.net/) are great for searching. Their higher spec’d versions aint cheap but you can shop around to find a deal. They also make similar spec’d Aero series but the high refresh rate screen (300hz) on the Aorus is more useful to me than the oled screen on the Aero, with may be a factor if you have a terminal open all day in the same place on the screen. Was also looking into Tuxedo (Germany), Entroware (UK), or System76 (US) but unfortunately as of 2 months ago they still are all Clevo (or TongFang or similar) laptops manufactured in mainland China, with a difficult traceability or outright bad working conditions, if that’s something you choose to factor in. System76 have some ‘made in the US’ promises but I havn’t seen any actual products yet. But the Tuxedo guys were very open about where they are sourcing things, as far as they could be, and seem to do a lot in the space, I was impressed. Purism have the librem series which seems good but I have no first hand experience with it.