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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?

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Post by piyh »

ergonaught wrote: post #80
wheats wrote: post #7

Someone correct me if I am missing some nuance here but I think the two MacBook options aren't contenders for best laptop running Linux. The drivers simply don't support basic things like the touchpad or wifi (at least not without extensive reworking and a modified kernel). Perhaps in some years Asahi Linux will be functional as a daily driver on the newer ARM/Apple Silicon but it's definitely a hobby laptop right no…

I haven't any major issues running Linux in a VM on an M1. Not my first choice, perhaps, but it's certainly functional.

How do you do this? I'm relatively new to mac, tried UTM and everything was stuck in QEMU modes and had terrible performance.

Re: Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?

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Post by geophile »

monero-xmr wrote: post #10

System 76 is the first Linux laptop I’ve liked. Have had intermittent issues with the touchpad after updates. Solid machine.

I have a nearly 4-year old Darter Pro. Pop OS is great on it, and the hardward has been flawless. Except that the speakers are really crappy. Otherwise, great.

Re: Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?

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Post by Gracana »

colordrops wrote: post #56
rendall wrote: post #19

I have had 0 problems with XPS Dell running Ubuntu. I've run it both as a dual boot with Windows and a standalone. Loved it so much I bought a second. The 13 in "Dell XPS 13" refers to the screen size. You can have a bigger screen. 15 & 17. My laptops are Dell XPS 17. I have heard good things about the Dell Precision as well.

I have an older XPS, the 9560, and compatibility with Linux has been pretty good, but the build quality has left a lot to be desired. I had to replace the Killer wifi card with an Intel card, as the OEM one was flaky and this seemed to be a known issue that wasn't acknowledged by Dell. The battery failed on me 3 times, and I eventually gave up on the warranty and bought a third party battery which I installed myself.…

I have a similar model and I can't stand the case flex issues. If you set the laptop on an uneven surface or try to work while holding it in your other hand, it'll flex and click the touchpad. I use this laptop while working on industrial equipment, so setting it on uneven surfaces or holding it while working is something I do pretty often. It's very annoying.

Re: Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?

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Post by piyh »

kaivi wrote: post #90

I've gotten myself a Dell Latitude 7330 Rugged Extreme laptop recently. It's what my ideal laptop is supposed to be: easily serviceable, plenty of ports, indestructible and linux-friendly. Even the onboard WLAN supports monitoring mode. Running NixOS+xmonad on it, encountered no problems whatsoever after it was configured. One major difference from an ordinary laptop experience is the old-style resistive trackpad, bu…

I don't know if I'd describe the Rugged Extreme as ideal for anything except "most likely to survive a car accident"

Re: Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?

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Post by sshine »

pantalaimon wrote: post #50
evil-olive wrote: post #24

I'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.

> with Linux you don’t need the latest hardware

If you work with compiled languages, having good hardware is a real quality of life improvement.

Re: Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?

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Post by Brian_K_White »

jll29 wrote: post #4

Writing this from my X1 Carbon (with my M1 MacBook Air also next to me). I'd be particularly interested in what experience folks have had running Linux on ThinkPad X1 Nano s. Note on your methodology: a purely numeric vote is an automatic win for Lenovo simply based on market share, so you should ask people about problems, if any.

Which makes the high numbers for Framework all that more significant.

Re: Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?

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Post by davidw »

kaivi wrote: post #90

I've gotten myself a Dell Latitude 7330 Rugged Extreme laptop recently. It's what my ideal laptop is supposed to be: easily serviceable, plenty of ports, indestructible and linux-friendly. Even the onboard WLAN supports monitoring mode. Running NixOS+xmonad on it, encountered no problems whatsoever after it was configured. One major difference from an ordinary laptop experience is the old-style resistive trackpad, bu…

> I've also heard legends about how great Dell's Worldwide repair program is where people have had parts delivered to them next day on the island of Borneo in Indonesia, but that's yet to be tested.

This was a long time ago, but I bought a Dell with Ubuntu while visiting my parents in Oregon, and took it back with me to where I was living in Innsbruck, Austria.

The hard drive (I told you this was a while back) died on me. I called up Dell, and expected some nightmare of having to ship it back to the US where I'd bought it and waiting months and who knows what.

But what actually happened was some guy showed up at my door the next day with a new drive and swapped it out.

I was so impressed.

Re: Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?

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Post by binkHN »

l8arrival wrote: post #28

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T14s Gen 3 AMD as of a few months ago. It replaced my older Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6th gen from 4 years ago, the main impetus being that I wanted 32gb of memory vs the 16gb that my X1 Carbon had. It's only a little bit bigger than the X1 Carbon, but I really like the 16:10 form factor vs the Carbon's 16:9. (Note that this year's Carbon also went to 16:10). The Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U processor (Ryzen 5…

> I ordered it with only a 256GB SSD...

What make and model SSD did it come with?

Re: Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?

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Post by bostonian10 »

piyh wrote: post #114
kaivi wrote: post #90

I've gotten myself a Dell Latitude 7330 Rugged Extreme laptop recently. It's what my ideal laptop is supposed to be: easily serviceable, plenty of ports, indestructible and linux-friendly. Even the onboard WLAN supports monitoring mode. Running NixOS+xmonad on it, encountered no problems whatsoever after it was configured. One major difference from an ordinary laptop experience is the old-style resistive trackpad, bu…

I don't know if I'd describe the Rugged Extreme as ideal for anything except "most likely to survive a car accident"

That’s the tough developer life for ya
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