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>If you are planning to run linux, seriously re-consider buying laptops with hybrid graphics. Yes, best buy in my opinion is thinkpad with only intel graphics
by jan_g 14y ago
>If you are planning to run linux, seriously re-consider buying laptops with hybrid graphics.
Yes, best buy in my opinion is thinkpad with only intel graphics or if you have discrete graphics, turn it off in bios (it works as expected). There are no problems with (over)heating, everything works out-of-the-box. It seems that thinkpads are well supported in Linux as I've had no problems yet.
- dscrd 14y agoOr the best option: buy from a company that explicitly supports Linux, such as System76 or Zareason. Vote with your wallet!
- 3rl 14y agoI love thinkpads, it works wonderfully for *BSD too.
- glogla 14y agoThinkpads are good as a work computer, but if you're looking for personal computer (for watching movies, playing some games, looking at pictures), the screen on anything but x200 series is going to hurt. And that one is pretty overpriced I think (it has worse cost/performance ratio than MacBook Air, and that's something). Which is really sad.
- zurn 14y agoEven some ThinkPads are broken in this way though (x). It's actually a bug in the laptop (hardware or firmware). It's just blamed on Linux when it doesn't happen to trigger on Windows. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/751689 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/751689