Those of you who use Linux on a laptop, which laptop do you use? I’ve been thinking of buying a new laptop to replace my current ageing macbook and would love to run Linux on it.
A few months ago I bought a Gigabyte Aorus 15g (intel 10th gen), made in Taiwan, and are relatively more open with visitors/reporters than their mainland China counterparts. Very happy with it so far. Runs ubuntu/debian out of the box flawlessly. Nvidia prime-select allows to run games with high FPS with no compromises, or gpu codes in python/matlab, and use the intel gpu for other things to get all day use out of the massive battery. The keyboard has made me a convert to mech-keyboards. The laptop itself is well made, metal, rigid. They don’t sell direct in the EU but I eventually found one with the right components and keyboard layout. If you are in the EU (https://geizhals.eu/) or (https://tweakers.net/) are great for searching. Their higher spec’d versions aint cheap but you can shop around to find a deal. They also make similar spec’d Aero series but the high refresh rate screen (300hz) on the Aorus is more useful to me than the oled screen on the Aero, with may be a factor if you have a terminal open all day in the same place on the screen. Was also looking into Tuxedo (Germany), Entroware (UK), or System76 (US) but unfortunately as of 2 months ago they still are all Clevo (or TongFang or similar) laptops manufactured in mainland China, with a difficult traceability or outright bad working conditions, if that’s something you choose to factor in. System76 have some ‘made in the US’ promises but I havn’t seen any actual products yet. But the Tuxedo guys were very open about where they are sourcing things, as far as they could be, and seem to do a lot in the space, I was impressed. Purism have the librem series which seems good but I have no first hand experience with it.
made in Taiwan, and are relatively more open with visitors/reporters than their mainland China counterparts
unfortunately as of 2 months ago they still are all Clevo (or TongFang or similar) laptops manufactured in mainland China, with a difficult traceability or outright bad working conditions, if that’s something you choose to factor in. System76 have some ‘made in the US’ promises
Mate you trying to play the American imperialist trance here? Can we be more non political while discussing open source technology on a technology board?
Not American, nor did I bring up politics. Place of manufacture, and the company doing it is a factor when buying tech. But feel free to be offended. But maybe keep that off a technology discussion board.
You know what you did, and I highlighted that via quoting. Keep this nationalist elitism/bias out of this community in the future.
ThinkPad
And System76, Clevo, Tuxedo, Framework, Dell XPS, business lineups et al.
Personally I want to try and push for an ARM/RISC-V laptop and keep x86 by my side in the future. ARM is just so far ahead in power efficiency terms, it is not even a joke. And there is almost nothing Wine and a Windows VM on Linux does not let me do.
My next laptop that will bridge the gap is surely going to have AMD instead of the disgusting joke that is Intel.
