Linux laptop
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I'd like something with 14nm processor, 8gb or more of RAM, and a quality charging system. I'm traveling and I want to try working in linux only.
>>55594797
install gentoo
>>55594842
ok, I will. I guess solid wifi is also needed, something with driver support.
lemote yeeloong w/gentoo
>>55594797
Linux doesnt handle battery well
>>55594938
Assuming you're taking that post seriously, you'll need this.
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Gentoo
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:Main_Page
>To make yourself an idea of what awaits you, on a 2014 mid-end quad core laptop CPU with 8 GB of RAM, setting up the minimum system (the stage-3 tarball + Portage snapshot) will take you about an hour
>compiling the kernel an hour and a half
>finishing your basic installation another hour
>installing the graphical interface at least 2 hours
>and installing Google Chrome or Firefox at least 20 hours each while the entire software compiles from source code.
>>55594797
k. good luck.
>>55596198
Pretty much everything you just listed is wrong.
>>55594797
hello Moomin.
>>55596198
>compiling the kernel an hour and a halflinux # time make -j4
real 12m20.189s
And that's with thermald/powerclamp configured to throtle the cpu to keep the fan noise down
