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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 anuvrat1 »

autoexec wrote: post #217
diffeomorphism wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I kinda view these as entirely different companies and IIRC Lenovo was even thinking about splitting their computer divisions into companies with different names. That is one thing apple really does well for their brand: only sell premium stuff under one brand (Beats not withstanding). In contrast Lenovo has a mixed reputation: Thinkstuff never had any of the issues you mentioned, but is still tarnished. Similarly, D…

> Thinkstuff never had any of the issues you mentioned What is "thinkstuff" in this context?

thinkPad, thinkbook, thinkstation, thinkcenter etc. Basically Lenovo's business oriented products

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

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Post by aussiesnack »

cmckn wrote: post #38
NeverFade wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Linus himself uses Asahi over an M2 Macbook Air: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/linus-torvalds-uses-...

I mean to be fair he is the Linux power user.

You'd think so, but from his own account he's not. Pre Asahi he used Fedora because it was easy to get working and he found Debian too hard to install. Could just be dry Finnish humour.

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

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Post by Mic92 »

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…

The nixos-hardware module also upgrades your linux kernel for this model already: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/blob/e2f9c6f7360f3e0...

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

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Post by vkoskiv »

8jy89hui wrote: post #53

My framework laptop has served me very well for the last year or so. This is one of the few pieces of open source hardware that is genuinely better (IMO) than many other larger hardware brands. The entire device is just so well built and the upgrade path is so well defined.

> This is one of the few pieces of open source hardware that is genuinely better (IMO) than many other larger hardware brands.

Is the Framework OSHW? I thought it was just very repairable, but proprietary. Have the PCB schematics and other designs been released?

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

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Post by soupbowl »

1attice wrote: post #36

Not on list but my Asus TUF 17" is consistently beating my expectations on driver compat and overall build quality

I love mine also, very impressive. My only issue is the audio needs tweaks, between the last 2 POPos updates the audio slider does not work, it is basicly on or off. Everything else works perfectly.

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

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Post by autoexec »

anuvrat1 wrote: post #221
autoexec wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Thinkstuff never had any of the issues you mentioned What is "thinkstuff" in this context?

thinkPad, thinkbook, thinkstation, thinkcenter etc. Basically Lenovo's business oriented products

Thinkpads were absolutely impacted by some of them

Lenovo's SHAREit software was preloaded on ThinkPad and IdeaPad notebooks. That was one of the hardcoded password issues I mentioned (along with other problems)

for more info see:

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2016-1489

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2016-1492

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2016-1491

The fingerprint scanner issue also impacted thinkpads, thinkstation and thinkcentre devices:

https://www.theregister.com/2018/01/26/lenovo_thinkpad_finge...

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

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Post by autoexec »

autoexec wrote: post #166

PSA: I don't believe that Lenovo should be trusted. They sold malware infected devices in exchange for money and have a long history of subjecting their users to privacy and security problems. With the superfish fiasco first they insisted there wasn't any risk: “We have thoroughly investigated this technology and do not find any evidence to substantiate security concerns,” ( https://www.techshout.com/lenovo-denies-ac…

I just noticed I grabbed the wrong URL for that first link. The one for the “We have thoroughly investigated this technology and do not find any evidence to substantiate security concerns,” quote.

this one works though: https://www.zdnet.com/article/lenovo-says-superfish-not-a-se...

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