*30 series Thinkpads (ivybridge) have the broadest support across all OSes (windows, Linux, BSDs, even some hackintoshes). If you don't want a new laptop, you can get one of those for cheap. General advice: Don't get anything with nvidia.
What are good linux laptops for 2018?
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Re: What are good linux laptops for 2018?
#12I put linux on my x1 carbon (gen 5) and it works well enough. Some notes, in no particular order: * great keyboard * kind of shit trackpad * trackpoint is pretty nice at least * hidpi is a pain in the ass to set up ..* looks great once you get it working ..* some apps like Zoom refuse to scale up, so the buttons are tiny * light weight * really long battery
Have you found a good way to adjust the trackpoint speed on your X1 Carbon? It's way too slow on my gen 4, and way too fast on my gen 6 (even after configuring it to max speed on the gen 4).
Re: What are good linux laptops for 2018?
#13I haven't tried them personally, but there are linux-specific vendors puri.sm and system 76.
Re: What are good linux laptops for 2018?
#14Here's my experience. If you develop everything locally, get a decent laptop with Ubuntu or Windows 10 Pro. Windows 10 Pro Edition comes with WSL, a Linux subsystem which is pretty decent for my deep learning implementation and small scale test. With Xming, I can do some visualization as well. There will be downsides. If you get a laptop that just comes with Ubuntu or any Linux distro, you are good to go. If your dev…
Am also evaluating migrating to chrome for all development. Currently using a re-purposed core-i5 work laptop, that boots lubuntu into ram. Runs vs code quite spiffily. As well as standard lxterm. And a complementary ubuntu micro instance that has been on forever on gcloud ;)
ChromeOS supports Linux via a custom container or VM. So you have access to all ChromeOS APIs. I assume virtualized graphics hardware will be accessible as well. Android Studio with device debugging bridge should also be available shortly. As will the ability to run most apk binaries.
Main concern is probably in choosing a 64-bit ARM based laptop. Such as the hexacore Samsung model. Eventually I can foresee running into a portability issue. Perhaps with a library dependency. Or digital content creation tools such as Blender or Adobe. Will always have a cloud instance or backup gaming laptop running Win10 to fall back on. But for mobile development and meetings in cafes, I think it will prove ideal.
Re: What are good linux laptops for 2018?
#15I put linux on my x1 carbon (gen 5) and it works well enough. Some notes, in no particular order: * great keyboard * kind of shit trackpad * trackpoint is pretty nice at least * hidpi is a pain in the ass to set up ..* looks great once you get it working ..* some apps like Zoom refuse to scale up, so the buttons are tiny * light weight * really long battery
I can confirm all of these (didn't have any setup issues though since it's a pre-configured company laptop).
Overall, a really nice laptop (except wtf is that terrible trackpad doing in there?). Didn't find any compatibility problems except the fingerprint scanner. But I didn't try very hard.
Re: What are good linux laptops for 2018?
#16I use a Thinkpad X1 Carbon as my daily driver with Ubuntu and it works well. My main advice is whatever laptop you choose, make sure there is good driver support (unless you really like tinkering).
Re: What are good linux laptops for 2018?
#17Here's my experience. If you develop everything locally, get a decent laptop with Ubuntu or Windows 10 Pro. Windows 10 Pro Edition comes with WSL, a Linux subsystem which is pretty decent for my deep learning implementation and small scale test. With Xming, I can do some visualization as well. There will be downsides. If you get a laptop that just comes with Ubuntu or any Linux distro, you are good to go. If your dev…
I haven't used it enough to know what its limits are but there's a lot to like with Windows Subsystem for Linux running either Ubuntu or Debian. Compared with macOS, it's current (apt-get to your heart's content), as opposed to macOS' terminal environment, which is hopelessly out of date. I really like what Microsoft is doing here.
Re: What are good linux laptops for 2018?
#18I have a Dell XPS 15 and to be frank I would advise against it. Good points: - Strong hardware - Looks nice Bad points: - M2 SSD requires changing some BIOS preferences to work on Linux - Nvidia graphics card is a pain on Ubuntu. Do a Google search for nouveau.modeset - The fans are on most of the time, even during idle. The machine isn't hot either - it just likes to run the fans - The 1920x1080 screen isn't that gr…
I find your result a bit surprising. Having the XPS 13 for work and these things are - besides the massive resolution for the comparably small screen - as painless as it gets in my experience.
Re: What are good linux laptops for 2018?
#19Buy a T-series Thinkpad. They're sturdy, have really good Linux support, and even the older ones are extremely robust. Look for an older one, such as a T420; or, if you want a newer one, the T480. Those are going to have easily-replaceable memory, battery, and storage.
T series Thinkpads only come with U class processors. This is fine for many usages but depending on what you want you might need to go for the P-series.
T470P didn't, I'm typing this on a Core-i7-7700HQ w/32GB RAM and the 2560x1440@14" screen.
Cracking little machine for massively less than an Apple machine with a faster processor and until recently twice the max RAM the 'Pro' could have.
Re: What are good linux laptops for 2018?
#20They hardly get any credit, bit HP laptops are cheap, sturdy and play very well with Linux (or at least Ubuntu)