I would also consider Dell Precision laptops.
Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love the form factor, but the battery is my second biggest gripe with my Framework (after fractional scaling still not supported by many apps). Even after tweaking settings ad nauseam, I cannot get the suspend battery life to last more than 12-16 hours.
If that's for an 11th gen model, that's taking into account the problems with HDMI/displayport extensions, and either not using them, or using the beta firmware update? The limited suspended battery life is admittedly rather annoying for me as well, but it doesn't seem as bad as it is in your case.
The killer for me is USB-A. Each draws about half a watt while the laptop is suspended, more than it usually draws when the laptop is turned on! With a 55 Wh battery, that really eats into your standby time (although I still usually get multiple days).
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#133I don't there is a particular laptop for linux.
Linux can be anywhere
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#134I had a good experience with the Huawei D15, which is my main machine presently (I live in Asia).
I installed Ubuntu. Everything worked. I've had exactly zero issues. Even battery life is decent.
I realize it might not be the most popular company in some parts of the world, but truth be told it's been pretty fantastic for the sticker price of almost USD 750.
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#135I don't get why so many people like the ThinkPad X1 Carbon. They don't come with SODIMM slots, RAM is soldered directly to the board. If RAM goes bad, you have to do circuit level repair which requires a potential reball. The X1 Extreme comes with SODIMM slots from what I hear, but that is not the X1 Carbon. It certainly won't be lasting anywhere as long as previous Thinkpad models that have replaceable parts.
When I got my x1c 5th a few years ago it was the best balance of power for size/weight and more rugged than others in that class. I loved it running linux the e tire time. If the Framework had not come into existence I would probably still be using it, and I still like some details better than the Framework. Soldered 16g limit and all. I would have liked more ram, but 16g was enough even for working with vms and compiling and some cad. The speed of the m.2 slot with a high end 1 or 2T nvme was more important than ram for most things for me. And full 40g tb3 ports allowing actually good docking station performance and the fact that the tb3 ports supported displayport without special drivers was just killer.
Sodimms would have been nice but it was just one factor of many, and the total package was just excellent for both linux and windows. I love that machine on linux.
And after so many years, recently I was able to replace the cpu cooler, battery, and cmos battery before giving it to a nephew. The batteries were both still working but 5 years is 5 years and there's no getting around that tbey will start crapping out soon. And the fan had started to squeal so I just got all the parts that age at once.
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#136Re: Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?
#137You could also completely replace your Linux Laptop with a Simula One.[1] :]
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#138Sorry to hijack, but I have a somewhat similar question: any recommendations for a SFF or Mini PC that can adequately run the latest Fedora for home productivity purposes? Web browsing mainly and light gaming.
I've been very happy with the Asus PN 50/51 which I use to run my not smart TV. They run very cool and quiet despite having a fan. Choose the level of AMD processor that suits your needs. All that and a fair bit cheaper than the Intel NUC's.
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#139I was recently in a similar boat, as the combination of discord + twitch was really making my 11 year old i5-2520M-based T420 really show its age (WHY IS A DESKTOP CHAT CLIENT AN ELECTRON APP??!??!) even with 16 GiB RAM in Arch Linux. I settled on a 16GB X13 Gen 2 from the outlet store (which seemed like a deal at ~520 USD). Coincidentally that's where I bought the T420 in 2011. The outlet store seems like a good way…
Where are you finding one at this price? That's fantastic.
https://www.lenovo.com/us/outletus/en/laptops/?visibleDatas=...
My particular deal seems to be gone now, but they come and go periodically. I also didn't bother with the (bait?) models at the top of the page that never seem to be in stock.
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Not meant to be downer (as a very, very happy owner of a pocket T420s if its replacement T480s should fail me): To anyone considering going back this far in hardware gen, my T420s (i7, 16GB memory, LUKS-encrypted SSD needed for work) on Mint + MATE DE could flat-out _not_ handle work video calls unless it was the _only_ thing that was running with everything else closed down. Even then, it was watching slideshows. It…
Not sure about T420s, but my T420 handled Zoom calls with Codium and browser running in the background (and sometimes used too) just fine. One thing it couldn't handle however is recording the call (the recording was like 1 FPS and almost no sound).
Ubuntu, Xfce, can't recall the specs right now but definitely not top of the line.