It’s -$140 in my area. Additionally, the 2 other models I picked first didn’t have that option at all.
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2025
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Fedora is better than Ubuntu?
Generally yes
Ubuntu fucking sucks, every distro is better than Ubuntu
I'm using Linux mint, I think it's build on Ubuntu. It's all i know, but I hear arch is awful for beginners.
Ubuntu is based on Debian so regular Mint is actually 2 levels down from upstream. But Mint has started offering a Debian base recently called LMDE if you want to check it out.
As for whether Arch is bad for beginners. Kinda. It's a DIY distro, assuming you can follow tutorials and guides it's pretty straight forward, especially with the archinstall script. But if you're uncomfortable with a terminal install, you can try out EndeavourOS which features a full gui install and a few tweaks to make it easier on beginners.
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I switched a while go and haven’t regretted it.
It depends. In my experience it’s less stable but has newer packages.
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One category "no OS", with also at least 211€ off, would be great. Don't need nothing on my device when I install Arch from scratch anyway. Or nc -lp 42069 > /dev/main/root and cat /dev/sda3 | nc 192.168.178.x -p 42069, recreate /dev/main/swap and reinstall /dev/main/boot. Or just nc -lp 42069 > /dev/nvme0n1 and cat /dev/nvme0n1 | nf 192.168.178.x -p 42069
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I wish other choices in life were this easy.
Wtf I dont have that option when I look at the same laptop on the nz version of the website.
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Oh those price tags make me happy
Interesting. Only Fedora seems to be available in Norway.
I'm still 2 years away from a new work laptop (my current one is doing just fine anyway), but when the time comes, I might go for this. Was thinking about going ThinkPad+Linux anyway.
Now if only Asus did that as wel, then we'd be balling
They will pay you to take it!