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Good vendor list. I myself bought a System 76 and a small Chromebook to get a no-hassle Linux experience. (Linux containers on Chromebooks are handy for light w
by mark_l_watson 4y ago
Good vendor list. I myself bought a System 76 and a small Chromebook to get a no-hassle Linux experience. (Linux containers on Chromebooks are handy for light weight development).
Another great source of Linux friendly hardware: old Mac laptops. A few months ago, Apple stopped supporting old gear for the new iCloud encryption, and if you had any registered laptops without this option turned on, then you couldn’t use it for any of your gear.
The point is, that I put Ubuntu on an old MacBook and a really old MacBook Air (the very small form factor). These old laptops have a new life, and run great. It was incredibly easy to do the installs, especially compared to my first Slackware install that I had to do with a 2400 baud modem Internet connection.
- eatbitseveryday 4y agoI have a 2013 MBP with an aged battery. How would you go about installing Linux?
- jckahn 4y agoI have the same model and installed Ubuntu from an ISO burned to a bootable USB. It works great!
- pixxel 4y agoI have Manjaro running on a 2013 MBA. Installed on a USB with Ventoy. Runs great.
- raffraffraff 4y agoI have the 20133 2015 13". MBP, and I installed OpenSUSE Tumbleweed from a USB stick. Everything works. You might just have to install facetimehd camera driver.
- placatedmayhem 4y agoI put Fedora on my 2012 MBP Retina. I made a USB key, iirc with the Fedora USB image tool, then plugged the USB key into the MBP and held the Option key as I powered it on. USB key shows up as a bootable option.
- lbrito 4y agoI'm flabbergasted it's been an hour and there has been no "System76 is just an expensive Clevo" post. HN isn't the same on Saturdays! Joking aside I also have one and am satisfied with it. In my experience it is the Linux laptop with lowest power consumption/longest battery out of the box by far.