What are good linux laptops for 2018? • Hacker News Board

Re: What are good linux laptops for 2018?

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Post by rahulroy9202 » Mon, Jul 23, 2018, 6:14 PM UTC

ddp wrote: post #17

frankensteins wrote: post #3

Here'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macOS, it's current (apt-get to your heart's content), as opposed to macOS' terminal environment, which is hopelessly out of date.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.

What do you mean by macOS' terminal environment is hopelessly out of date?

Re: What are good linux laptops for 2018?

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Post by acoard » Mon, Jul 23, 2018, 9:14 PM UTC

rahulroy9202 wrote: post #71

ddp wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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macOS, it's current (apt-get to your heart's content), as opposed to macOS' terminal environment, which is hopelessly out of date.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.

What do you mean by macOS' terminal environment is hopelessly out of date?

Not OP, but guessing it's things like having Python 2 instead of Python 3 installed out of the box. It took them forever to update to Git version > 2.0.0 too.

Re: What are good linux laptops for 2018?

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Post by ishbits » Tue, Jul 24, 2018, 12:33 AM UTC

I currently have Fedora 28 installed on a T470 and a T480s and it’s pretty flawless. Not the sexiest laptops out there, but they seem pretty good for Linux.

Re: What are good linux laptops for 2018?

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Post by godot » Wed, Jul 25, 2018, 4:10 AM UTC

timbit42 wrote: post #65

godot wrote: post #58

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If you want to use Arch but are not that hardcore-technical (command line installer etc.), try Antergos. It's like Arch ez-mode -- GUI installer, installs with a GUI of your choice (Gnome by default), uses all the Arch packages. I am running Antergos on a Lenovo Ideapad 720s and it's a pleasant experience.

Any thoughts on Manjaro vs. Antergos?

Haven't used Manjaro personally; from what I've read, Antergos is closer to actual Arch, where Manjaro is just based on Arch. This is a good summary article: https://freedompenguin.com/articles/opinion/manjaro-vs-anter...