Lenovo with recent AMD APU.
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?
#182I'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…
You could probably replace WiFi chip with Intel one and it would have avoided the issue. I did that with a few Lenovo laptops, but you should watch out for their WiFi chips whitelisting, which is a very annoying hidden blocker if you aren't aware of it.
> and there's some wonkiness with suspend
Check their UEFI, I think they started adding an option for Linux there specifically to handle suspend better. Set it to Linux instead of Windows.
Re: Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?
#183Working 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?
3 years ago. Apparently I struck a nerve here? My daily driver is Linux and I’m by no means a Mac fanboy, but I do think consistency is good when the alternative is a distraction from real work.
Re: Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?
#184Check out Lenovo's lineup. You can save some money with IdeaPads - some of them are quite good quality, and run Linux almost flawlessly.
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#185I’m sporting the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 with AMD Ryzen 7 4800U. Amazing value for money ( In general, if you go for a distro like Debian or Ubuntu I don’t think you can go wrong with a Lenovo that’s been out for a few years.
I have it's cheaper cousin, the IdeaPad S540 with Ryzen 4800U - running Fedora 37 and it works great.
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#186Interesting that x1 gets much more love than the canonical T series thinkpads. Myself, I am buying up the t480 laptops as they are I believe last generation to have easily user replaceable external batteries. Laptops with internal battery only make me claustrophobic :-/
My x240 had hot swappable batteries, I could get almost 16 hours of hardcore usage even after years of use. Those were the days
Re: Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?
#187I 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?
They usually pack some SK Hynix OEM targeted models.
You can replace it with something better like SSK Hynix Platinum P41 or Samsung SSDs.
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#188Re: Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?
#189Does Google use the X1 because it’s so good with Linux, or is it so good with Linux because of companies like Google?
Slightly off topic but what hardware do googlers use? I imagine the answer is "it depends" given how wide the remit of their engineering force is but for rank and file is there even choice for picking hardware?
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You could just use the beta of vmware fusion for apple silicon. I have only used Parallels for windows but it was such a great experience it would surely be fine for linux. Ubuntu multipass is a little finicky but it works fine as a remote deskop.