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Linux laptop recommendation thread🐧💻 (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm on the market to buy a new laptop, and Lemmy has successfully coaxed and goaded me to give Linux a serious try.

I've never used *nix as my personal OS.

Which hardware/laptop do you recommend? And which OS to pair it with for a Linux newbie?

I'm a software engineer, and quit my job to pursue an MSc in AI. So my uses will be:

  • programming
  • study
  • browsing lemmy
  • gaming
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Which ThinkPad?

[–] drdnl 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

We use about seven ThinkPad T16 and P16s professionally with zero issues. Can recommend

Edit: the AMD versions, those generally work better with Linux

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I've been rocking a first gen X1 Yoga (6th gen intel) for like 5-6 years, three or so of those years I've been using Pop!_OS and its been pretty good. I suspect that a 6th gen intel may be a little lacking for your uses, just to say that most ThinkPads will be good.

[–] derpgon 0 points 10 months ago

Rocking E15 Gen2 with AMD CPU for about 3 years now, can't complain besides the fucking fingerprint reader having proprietary drivers (thus not working on Linux).

So, the E model line is a nice work laptop with basically no GPU performance whatsoever.