What is a good laptop to get Linux for the first time on? I want it to look normal not like a brick thinkpad.
didn't your mother teach you to read?
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chromebook, with crouton. You'll appreciate being able to flip back and forth between "real" linux and chromeos when things inevitably go wrong and you need to fix them.
>>53549342
Sorry :'(
>>53549291
Chromebook is a good option it relatively cheaper also
>>53549291
We certainly not the aluminum piece of shit in your pic anon.
I have an asus zenbook. The metal case is very thin, any impact will cave-in a corner and shatter the edge of the screen. It happens shockingly easily.
Thanks to my mothers cat, I know this first hand. :(
>>53549481
What the fuck did your moms pussy do to your laptop
>>53549481
Grow up and learn to take care of your things.
XPS 13 3k
Thinkpads are the most reliable, but you don't have to get the old brick ones. They have nice looking thin ones these days, just like every other manufacturer. Pic related: Current Thinkpad X1.
If all else fails, the XPS 13 isn't a bad second choice.
>>53549416
If you're actually sorry you can be forgiven by leaving and never coming back.
I can't recommend a thin laptop other than the cherry trail chink stuff for 100 bucks, no point in getting one of those laptops that aren't powerful enough for anything other than mp3s.
Something with nvidia graphics
>>53552052
I've got an XPS 13 here. One thing I have to add, make sure your XPS 13 has intel wifi rather than broadcom wifi. Broadcom wifi'll work under linux but it's shit and you have to go out of your way to get drivers.
Also if you hit a hidpi model expect to do some configuration to make it look decent.
>>53549291
if you're going to bother with dedicated graphics, make sure you don't get an AMD one
you know the meme that AMD's drivers on windows are shit? AMD's linux drivers are shit in ways you can't even imagine
other than that, you should be good
>>53552094
Well yea the windows version comes with broadcom card and the ubuntu with intel card.
>>53552123
Didn't amd's free driver fix this a while ago?
>>53552281
fix what?
as it stands
free driver = either your card is on fire and performs like shit or X just uses the intel one no matter how hard you try
proprietary driver = literally fucking nothing works and the screen tears all over the place
>>53549291
macbook w/ssd
>>53552749
MBP works out of the box with linux. Most sysadmin guys I know use one. Only bad thing is its apple, but build quality is pretty darn good. Not much more expensive than xps 13 either (if you have a job).
>>53552927
I'd get an XPS 15 instead. They have better screens and a dedicated GPU, as well as working extremely well with Linux.
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