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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 tazjin »

Saigonauticon wrote: post #134

I 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.

+1 for Huawei, I have a MateBook X and it's almost perfect (the camera placement is the one annoyance, other than that it's just never in my way - unlike my AMD ThinkPad). Never thought about Huawei before buying this thing, and I keep getting asked if it's a MacBook.

Depending on where you live, Huawei also has pretty decent support and - something that I value - the ability to look at products in a shop before buying them! In Moscow they have a few shops for that, and even in more "chaotic" cities (like Cairo, where I bought it) they have decent resellers.

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Post by fsflover »

I'm very happy with my Purism Librem 15. Even suspend is 100% reliable, and one can replace RAM, WiFi card, and it even has a camera/microphone hardware kill switch. Their new model Librem 14 looks even better, but its screen size 14" is too small for me.

Why is Librem 14 not in the poll?

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

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Post by noisy_boy »

nine_k wrote: post #269

I 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…

> - Sleek-looking at the expense of everything soldered and glued down: Thinkpad X1, MBP 2019.

Thinkpad X1 Extreme doesn't have soldered/glued down setup (well, except the battery): both RAM and SSD are user replaceable. Though one might argue that it is essentially a P-series machine...

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

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Post by schaefer »

nextos wrote: post #98
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…

IMHO ARM ThinkPads have a lot of potential due to their low-heat fanless design. The X13s is nearly there in terms of Linux support, better in some regards than the M1. Next generation will be hopefully closer to the M1 in terms of performance. However, pricing is weird in some markets. Here in EU/UK, the X13s is really expensive and makes no sense to purchase.

I had my eye on the x13s, but the lack of ports is a real bummer.

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

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Post by geff82 »

I would have blindly have voted for Lenovo. Until this year, when (out of technical curiosity) I got an M1 powered Macbook. I use MacOS, but I also need Linux all the time. So I installed Ubuntu on Parallels - and it is amazingly fast, capable and integrated with MacOS. So - my heart wants to have a pure Open Source powered computer. But in practice, this little machine with its infinite battery and mind blowing speed does it all.

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

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Post by noisy_boy »

Jnr wrote: post #282
nine_k wrote: post #269

I 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…

Even though M1 MBP runs Linux, it has a very basic GPU driver, no hardware acceleration for video decoding/encoding. The "Fastest CPU + GPU + battery life" probably will not be true if using Linux on it. Would be great if Asahi users could provide regular benchmarks between MacOS and Linux on M1, to see how it is progressing. When it comes to Thinkpads and other similar laptops - get one without the dedicated Nvidia…

Thirded. As an owner of Thinkpad X1 Extreme with Nvidia GPU, I'm never going to buy another laptop with Nvidia inside.

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

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Post by unhammer »

nsilvestri wrote: post #105
RosanaAnaDana wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is the weight/ mobility/ versatility? I jumped on the System76 train initially and feel burned. I'm looking for an alternative for my next machine. Its gotta actually have functional battery life next round. I expected a firmware update at some point from system76 to resolve this and it basically has never happened.

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.

https://community.frame.work/t/test-results-for-standby-batt... seems like those expansion cards are the main suspend battery draw. Too bad, they look very handy.
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