I'd choose one that the OEM ships with Linux, then I'd search for other people's experiences with them, especially the bad ones.
Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?
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Re: Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?
#42For what it’s worth, I’ve been on MacOS for 7 years, 2 of which have been on an M1. It’s been fabulous. The corner cases of M1 support have mostly disappeared. I left a review here several months ago that was edging towards negative, but I have to admit, the ecosystem has matured substantially. Even pytorch has a native M1 mode now. The best part is, when something does require a recompile, it zips by — compiling is…
> I’ve been on MacOS The OP asked about a laptop to run Linux, and you suggest running MacOS? Or did you forget mentioning the part about running Linux on it?! I respect you, but weird post tbh.
It's probably out of scope but running Linux as Lima/Docker/Parallels under MacOS should be a serious consideration.
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#43System 76 is the first Linux laptop I’ve liked. Have had intermittent issues with the touchpad after updates. Solid machine.
I'm curious if anyone is using NixOS on the Oryx Pro with acceptable results.
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#44I have the HP Dev One and it's pretty darn good and inexpensive.
What are a few of the things you like about it? Besides price ($1099, btw)
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#45I'd recommend my XPS-15 9510 (no issues with hybrid graphics on ubuntu), but Dell managed to screw up the goddamn touchpad. How? I have no idea. The solution seems to involve soldering an extra ground wire from the bottom of the touchpad to a nearby piece of frame. Hillarous failure. Seems to not be a problem on Windows, so Dell knows a workaround but still lets it cause problems in Linux.
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#46How do I down vote one?
I'm on a System76.
I gave it a shot.
No.
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#47Idk if the series is still going strong but my old HP EliteBook 840 G1 was quite impressive with Linux support.
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#48I did some research and just purchased Thinkpad X1 Nano Gen 9 last week. My Debian Linux setup was fairly easy.
I had to drop Macbooks because it's NVMe SSD is soldered and is not upgradable.
Thinkpad X1 Carbon is a decent choice, but they all seemed to be limited to 1920x1080 screen resolution for some reason -- which is a big-no for me.
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#49Working at Acquia we had a bunch of devops who preferred Linux/thinkpads/things with docks. They never worked correctly, and these folks spent a non trivial amount of time diagnosing them, even taking up meeting time to explain the latest arcane fix that was needed so $whatever would come up properly after sleep. They would also complain that dev tooling wouldn’t work for them when they were maybe a handful out of hu…
Linux on Thinkpad with Lenovo dock working just fine for my colleagues. Not that I'm a fan of Lenovo's but I coincidentally happen to know multiple people with that setup and no dock/linux/thinkpad-related issues. Since you say they were since "forced" onto a nonfree platform, perhaps this was years ago?
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#50I'm typing this on a brand-new Lenovo (T14s gen 3 AMD), the first brand-new laptop I've bought myself in about a decade the wifi didn't work on the 5.15 LTS kernel that NixOS defaults to, so I had to upgrade to 6.0. and there's some wonkiness with suspend, where the system will sometimes re-suspend itself a moment after opening the lid. a minor annoyance that I haven't taken the time to debug yet. my previous Lenovos…
My T430s is still going strong.
The good thing is that with Linux you don’t need the latest hardware to have a snappy system.
The bad thing is that not having the latest hardware is required if you don’t want to tinker.