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Nobody has tried the Lenovo Z13? I have one and it's way better than the ThinkPad I had before. It does get warm, and you can't play games on it, but it feels more premium and has a stronger CPU.
I used a Framework for a while, and I’d definitely give it my vote for the best Linux laptop I’ve used(Also PopOS has the best out of the box support for most laptops in my experience). This being said, I traded my framework out for an M1 MacBook Pro, and just use OS X now. The reality is my OS X environment is functionally identical to Linux(and this includes very heavy use of Docker, I don’t know what anyone compla…
The company where I consult gave me a MacBook, so my work is on that device.
The difference in hardware is just night and day. Sound, touchpad, battery life, ... . I don't get it why any other hardware company can't even get close to what Apple is offering.
Anyway, when I need to replace my own laptop, chance is very high that it will be a MacBook. Although I still like my Linux Mint way more than MacOS, the difference between those two seems less than the hardware difference between a MacBook and anything else out there.
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I believe he also runs it in console mode and doesn't use graphics, X.org, Wayland, etc. So, keep that in mind.
I've never read that about Torvolds, who I believe uses fairly standard GNOME. Could you be confusing him with Stallman who does things like use wget for browsing the internet?
> uses fairly standard GNOME.
Last I heard he is(was?) a Fedora user
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Parallels. I use an Ubuntu VM via Parallels on a Mac Studio M1 Max and the performance feels native.
Native? Are you comparing emulated x86 to native Windows ARM via dual-boot?
https://www.uubyte.com/blog/how-to-install-macos-ventura-on-...
Internal 256 GB disk has dual boot macOS and Asahi Linux.
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…
Best Linux laptop I ever had, using ThinkPads and Dell for many many years (14 years in total now)
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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…
I had to tweak something to make Zoom and Youtube see the GPU better (for Youtube, something in the Firefox about:config), and it lowered CPU load on my i5 CPU quite a bit, down to things becoming pretty fluid (T470, currently at 6.0.12 but it worked with 5.x, too).
While I fondly remember my T420 from 2011, its CPU was sort of... underpowered by today's standards.
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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 sc…
I've found my last 3 Thinkpads (T480, T490, T14) to all be excellent for Linux work. No real downsides, everything works as it should. If there was one thing that's let me down, it's that their webcams aren't great with occasional audio issues. My current driver though is a Flex 5i Chromebook, running ChromeOS and Linux via Crostini. Last time I had a Chromebook, I wiped it and ran straight Linux. But now Crostini is…