I got a Framework Intel Gen 12 a couple of months ago. Running Debian with sway window manager. Its the best laptop I ever had apart from bad battery performance.
Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?
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I voted for the Dell XPS, but really wanted to vote for the Dell Latitude. I recently upgraded to a refurbished 8th gen (KBL, top of the line i7 model with NVMe and Thunderbolt) Latitude 7390, and everything "just works", including BIOS updates via LVFS/fwupd with only a few days lag over the announcement on Dell's site. With this level of support I finally feel like a first class citizen running Linux. Oh, and it ha…
I, meanwhile, have a Dell Precision 5570 and on the latest LTS Ubuntu it suffers from intermittent trackpad lag; crashing when moving from one docking station to another when suspended; the fans sometimes running when suspended; poor audio quality from the built-in microphone; it intermittently becomes unresponsive to mouse and keyboard; and it exclusively has USB C ports. I very much do not feel like a first class c…
I have a Dell Latitude at work and a Dell XPS at home, both running Windows and both have always and constantly had issues with docking stations and also sleep. I have to hibernate them instead of sleeping to avoid random crashes, and I power up each laptop and log in before connecting to the docking station. Kinda dumb that I have to deal with this in 2022 on flagship laptops running the vendor's chosen OS.
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#323I see very disparate use cases for these laptops, so the competition is not really that fair. - Fastest CPU + GPU + battery life, x64 not needed, money no object: M1 MBP. - Reliable, serviceable, upgradeable, fashion-despising: T14 / T480 / T490. - Serviceable, upgradable, but sort of new kids on the block, and less fashion-oblivious: Star Labs Starfighter, Framework, System 76 Oryx Pro. - Sleek-looking at the expens…
I would add the System 76 Lemur for an open-source, under-user-control, thin, and light laptop.
Re: Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?
#324I see very disparate use cases for these laptops, so the competition is not really that fair. - Fastest CPU + GPU + battery life, x64 not needed, money no object: M1 MBP. - Reliable, serviceable, upgradeable, fashion-despising: T14 / T480 / T490. - Serviceable, upgradable, but sort of new kids on the block, and less fashion-oblivious: Star Labs Starfighter, Framework, System 76 Oryx Pro. - Sleek-looking at the expens…
Another happy Dell user here. I'm actually not using a laptop any more, but I started with an Inspirion in 2007 and that ran at the time Fedora Core with no problems everything worked out of the box. I've since stuck with Dells and have been very happy.
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#325wth these laptops are even more expensive than MacBooks man… this is insane
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#327The Lambda Labs Tensorbook looks pretty sweet: https://lambdalabs.com/deep-learning/laptops/tensorbook
I think it's mostly a rebranded Razer, but it seems to target Linux at least, which is nice, and it has support and such.
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#328If you're in the tech industry then you may want to strongly consider what keyboard does a laptop have. ThinkPads still win IMO despite Lenovo making keyboards thinner in the recent years.
One absolute killer feature of ThinkPads for me is that you can remap the trackpad keys under the spacebar to any other key, e.g. to SUPER or ALT key for superb ergonomics.
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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.
> 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.
I work mostly with C on embedded targets where build times are not really an issue. If I have to build a Linux kernel, that's a different story.
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#330I stopped buying Lenovos because they are a chinese company. Sure, almost everything is made in China, but I will at least choose not to support a company operating from a communist country.
China is terrible and one should avoid buying from China at all costs, but doing so because they're "Communist" is ridiculous, the only "Communist" part in China is that it has a tyrannical dictatorship they is cosplaying as "Communist", otherwise they're as capitalist as it gets when it suits party interests.
Good point. Still, one could say that party interests is a feature of every communist state, so it fits in practice.