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Literally the only thing that matters to me when thinking about ditching my MBP is how well the computer works with linux. I have had such horrible experiences

Literally the only thing that matters to me when thinking about ditching my MBP is how well the computer works with linux. I have had such horrible experiences with linux laptops and honestly it seems like as time goes by it gets worse. This article doesn't mention linux at all but I suspect the experience is poor.

levesque 8y ago
Unless it's officially supported, brand new laptops usually (read, in my experience) have a rough first year with Linux and things stabilize over the course of the second year.
coolspot 8y ago
I recently bought an HP Omen laptop and naturally installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on it. Surprisingly almost everything worked well out-the-box. All it needed was to install NVidia drivers and configure action on lid closure (sleep).
thedoops 8y ago
I'm cautiously anticipating Lenovo's announcement of the P1 which will supposedly ship with the intel+Vega chip. Rumors are that same chip will be used in the next Gen MacBooks. They're also working on some Ryzen cpu model equivalents to the t480, t580, etc. All of which will have better graphics performance than the equivalent Intel cpu. What I really want is a Ryzen Thinkpad x1 2 in 1 with good Linux support, but maybe that's too much hopeful thinking. My t430 will suffice until I find something worthy to upgrade to.
- dna_polymerase 8y ago
  Ryzen Based X1 would be so amazing. We need options to ditch Intel.
fulafel 8y ago
Stick to business thinkpads with intel graphics, they have worked very well for 15 years.
- smacktoward 8y ago
  Or buy a laptop that comes with Linux out of the box. Dell sells several XPS and Precision models that way, and there's niche-ier vendors like System76 and Purism out there too.
  - wildrhythms 8y ago
    Does the Dell require me to run some Dell-specific kernel still?
craftyguy 8y ago
You should consider purchasing a device from a manufacturer who makes an effort to support Linux on their device. The two big ones at the moment seem to be Purism and System76. Dell also does, but, IIRC, you have to use their bastardized ubuntu kernel crap on their newer systems, at least until proper support has been upstreamed to the kernel (if they can still be bothered to do that.)
- curioussavage 8y ago
  I just got a dell precision at work and had to reinstall for full disk encryption. Ended up ditching the dell distro and installing an Ubuntu 16 derived distro. Everything works fine 2 months in.

levesque 8y ago

Unless it's officially supported, brand new laptops usually (read, in my experience) have a rough first year with Linux and things stabilize over the course of the second year.

coolspot 8y ago

I recently bought an HP Omen laptop and naturally installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on it. Surprisingly almost everything worked well out-the-box. All it needed was to install NVidia drivers and configure action on lid closure (sleep).

thedoops 8y ago

I'm cautiously anticipating Lenovo's announcement of the P1 which will supposedly ship with the intel+Vega chip. Rumors are that same chip will be used in the next Gen MacBooks. They're also working on some Ryzen cpu model equivalents to the t480, t580, etc. All of which will have better graphics performance than the equivalent Intel cpu. What I really want is a Ryzen Thinkpad x1 2 in 1 with good Linux support, but maybe that's too much hopeful thinking. My t430 will suffice until I find something worthy to upgrade to.

dna_polymerase 8y ago
Ryzen Based X1 would be so amazing. We need options to ditch Intel.

fulafel 8y ago

Stick to business thinkpads with intel graphics, they have worked very well for 15 years.

smacktoward 8y ago
Or buy a laptop that comes with Linux out of the box. Dell sells several XPS and Precision models that way, and there's niche-ier vendors like System76 and Purism out there too.
- wildrhythms 8y ago
  Does the Dell require me to run some Dell-specific kernel still?

craftyguy 8y ago

You should consider purchasing a device from a manufacturer who makes an effort to support Linux on their device. The two big ones at the moment seem to be Purism and System76. Dell also does, but, IIRC, you have to use their bastardized ubuntu kernel crap on their newer systems, at least until proper support has been upstreamed to the kernel (if they can still be bothered to do that.)

curioussavage 8y ago
I just got a dell precision at work and had to reinstall for full disk encryption. Ended up ditching the dell distro and installing an Ubuntu 16 derived distro. Everything works fine 2 months in.