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.
+1 and flawless out of box Linux support.
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?
#232If only one (other than MacBook) of them was built with security in mind...
Re: Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?
#233I’ve bought new Lenovo and Dell laptops in the last years. Both required an unstable Linux kernel and worked fine then. So, the most important IMO is whether you use a distribution which can easily switch kernels like NixOS or, I think, Arch.
Re: Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?
#234Hands down DELL XPS 13. Get a TB16 dock and you are good to do full desk or mobile work. Long battery life and nice dell external batteries you can carry with you too.
Had a very recent XPS and it is a hard no.
I've seen worse and it was some Acer from 15 years ago.
Re: Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?
#235I use arch wih a 6th gen thinkpad X1 Carbon, it's the best system I ever used. I had some wear of the charging cable and the audio port in 4 years.
Re: Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?
#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
Parallels. I use an Ubuntu VM via Parallels on a Mac Studio M1 Max and the performance feels native.
parallels cost money? or am i wrong about that? There's no qemu equivalent on mac I don't think.
Yes, Parallels costs money, and if you run Win11 arm64, buying license for that also costs money.
UTM is Qemu.
Qemu can be compiled for macOS and Linux. I just today figured out how to compile Qemu on arm64 (actually using OrangePi that has 16 GB RAM and is arm64, similar like Linux on M1) so that it can run ReactOS. OrangePi has 8 cores (shown with "nproc"), so I used "make -j8" to make compiling use all cores, compiling faster:
Networking examples for various OS: https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Networking
Slirp required to be included when compiling, to have user networking: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1917161
sudo apt -y install git libglib2.0-dev libfdt-dev libpixman-1-dev zlib1g-dev ninja-build git-email libaio-dev libbluetooth-dev libcapstone-dev libbrlapi-dev libbz2-dev libcap-ng-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libgtk-3-dev libibverbs-dev libjpeg8-dev libncurses5-dev libnuma-dev librbd-dev librdmacm-dev libsasl2-dev libsdl2-dev libseccomp-dev libsnappy-dev libssh-dev libvde-dev libvdeplug-dev libvte-2.91-dev libxen-dev liblzo2-dev valgrind xfslibs-dev libnfs-dev libiscsi-dev meson
git clone https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu.git
cd qemu
git submodule init
git submodule update
git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/slirp/libslirp
cd libslirp
meson build
ninja -C build install
cd ..
mkdir build
cd build
../configure --enable-slirp
make -j8
sudo make install
sudo apt install qemu-utils
wget reactos-32bit-bootcd-nightly.7z
7z x reactos-32bit-bootcd-nightly.7z
mv reactos*.iso ReactOS.iso
qemu-img create -f qcow2 ReactOS.qcow2 20G
qemu-system-i386 -m 3G -drive if=ide,index=0,media=disk,file=ReactOS.qcow2 -drive if=ide,index=2,media=cdrom,file=ReactOS.iso -boot order=d -serial stdio -netdev user,id=n0 -device rtl8139,netdev=n0
Re: Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?
#237Asus Vivobook/Zenbook OLEDs without dGPU seem to be good choices as well.
They also have the ProArt if you want more power/RAM and the Zepharys G14 if you want AMD GPUs.
If I could get the G14 with OLED screen it would be perfect.
Re: Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?
#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would like to know as well. UTM isn't great at the moment
Parallels. I use an Ubuntu VM via Parallels on a Mac Studio M1 Max and the performance feels native.
Parallels on M1 runs Win11 arm64 and Ubuntu arm64, those are as default installed templates, included inside VM installed AddOns. They are fast, because they do not emulate full CPU like amd64. Win11 arm64 can run amd64 software, it's CPU emulation stuff included in Win11 itself. So Win11 arm64 and run amd64 versions of MS Office, AmigaForever, etc amd64 software.
Re: Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?
#239Thinkpad X1 Extreme Gen 2. Everything works but endless Nvidia driver issues with multi-monitor setup causing screen to blank out and all windows to shift to one monitor - rearranging the windows multiple times gets tiring pretty soon. Performance is slightly above mediocre and runs pretty hot too (if you have issues with fan noise, this machine is NOT for you). Has turned up with flat battery multiple times even when the battery was showing 60%/70% prior to last shutdown (not sleep or hibernate).
The two saving graces are its upgradability (two RAM slots + two SSD slots) and its port selection (1 TB/1 USB-C/2 USB-A/1 HDMI/1 Mini DP) which means I can drive three monitors without a dock (have stopped trusting them after a bad experience).
Had Dells in the past but the battery starts to bloat and miscellaneous issues crop up so I have given up on them.
Framework would be the choice for my next laptop assuming I can get off the Nvidia train and get on AMD with decent port selection (or if they can't have that many ports, would be good if they come out with a decent dock that is guaranteed with work with Linux in a multi-monitor (3 atleast) setup - that is a another area they can win a bunch of customers).
Re: Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?
#240Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Windows arm64 can not boot natively on M1/M2. There is no drivers for Windows to do that. It's just about running Win11 arm64 in Parallels in macOS.
Asahi Linux has modified kernel where is M1/M2 drivers, and remaining of Asahi is from Arch Linux. Asahi is installed like new version of macOS, notification about it goes to Apple, Apple just does not know it's actually Asahi Linux install. M1/M2 hardware has possibility for Linux by design, Apple most likely had some minimal Linux running on it for test purposes. There are also other FOSS distros for M1/M2, they use partially same packages and ways to make installing dual boot OS possible.
It's also possible to install macOS and Asahi Linux to external SSD drive and boot from there. But part of boot is still at internal drive, so it's not like boot at any computer yet.