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I’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.
Issues include lack of nightlight on wayland, random boot/cpu lockups where OS won't load probably 30% of the time, obsidian(electron?) has weird issues typing where keystrokes undo and then re-do, lack of thunderbolt dock support for wired ether-net. That's all I can recall for the moment, there are others.
I would consider the M1 Pro if it had complete linux support. However I do prefer the lenovo keyboard, and I also generally like the "boring" chassis of the lenovo as well. The x1/thinkpad chassis is extremely durable and forgiving. If you travel with your laptop you don't need to worry about handling it like it's made of glass. I cannot count the amount of dinged or bent macbooks I've seen due to the alu chassis.
System 76 is not really competitive in EU last time I checked due to customs.
I know framework only recently has opened resellers in germany/france so it wasn't an option when I was looking at the time. However I don't see much appeal at the "upgradability", aside from the battery and ssd (which is easily serviceable on all lenovos). I always bought the laptop maxed out to avoid upgrading/incompatibility issues and used the laptop until it finished it's service life (5+ years).
As someone who has been using a Thinkpad X1 with Linux on it since 2014, I'd probably strongly consider getting another one. Framework is the only other tempting choice, but some people voiced concerns about Linux compability with the latest revision. Might be worth messing around with it though.
Hi, my name is Matt Hartley. I'm the new Linux Lead for Framework. Our laptops have great support for both Ubuntu and Fedora. I'm typing this from Fedora right now. We also have community support for other distros as well.
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Wow that StarFighter looks awesome! Too bad about the lack of trackpoint though. I wonder if they'll come out with an ARM model. Open source OS's are in a good position to take advantage of alternate CPU architectures.
Has anyone actually received one yet, though? I can't seem to find any actual reviews.
They also offer a more moderately priced StarBook model which ships in "4-5 weeks". Fossbytes gave this laptop a generally positive, though not outstanding review: https://fossbytes.com/starbook-mk-v-from-star-labs-review/
I bought a Framework (11th gen intel) when it was first announced but ended up returning it:
- small battery, despite heavily tweaking and running a very barebones setup I was running out of battery very quickly
- though I loved 3:2, 13.5" was too small for my preference
- macbook trackpads are still better
- I made a mistake and got the 1920x1200 screen and it's awful
- trackpad, again
I'm leaning towards trying out the X1 Carbon Gen 10 but I'm unsure if I'll like the 14" screen. I've also looked at the X1 Extreme but unsure about battery life (I don't need the Nvidia graphics, though I guess I could just disable that and use Intel). The Star Labs Starfighter looks great on paper but there are no videos or reviews of the production units yet and I'd like to wait and see a hands-on first.
You will generally never go wrong with a popular Thinkpad (X/T/P series) that was released a year or more ago.
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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…
That is a thing? To be honest not sonething I'd expect to work reliably under any OS, the low-level complexities involved are mind-boggling.
The rest do seem like legit complaints, that's a shame.