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I think the trick is to cherry-pick laptops. There's only a handful of decent laptops in the market that run Linux very well (drivers in kernel, perfect powersa
by nextos 11y ago
I think the trick is to cherry-pick laptops. There's only a handful of decent laptops in the market that run Linux very well (drivers in kernel, perfect powersaving, ACPI events from battery, etc).
My MacBook Air 11 inch 2012 (formerly used by Linus) is pretty good. So were some Lenovos like x220. These days Chromebook Pixel or Dell XPS hold some promise. Also cheap Chromebooks like some Acer and some Asus. I have my eyes on cheap ARM machines for their capability to run blobless (e.g. Asus C201).
- collyw 11y agoThe keyboard is missing keys (like delete) and there is no button on the mouse. Small things but pretty annoying if you are used to clicking the middle button for pasting. And the battery seems to last about half of the time compared to OSX
- nextos 11y agoI get an _extra_ 10-20 min in Linux vs OS X thanks to powertop tweaks implemented via udev rules and a minimal desktop with a tiling WM and no desktop environment. But I agree on the annoying omissions. I hate no dedicated insert, although shift + backspace works well.