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Best place for laptops for development? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm currently using an HP with Windows 11 and WSL but I'd love to switch to Linux, proper - at least just on my development machine. I'm standard LAMP, though I also would use Node and Rails, too.

I use AI and PS (though I'm familiar with Inkspot and Gimp, if WINE isn't perfect for them), Visual Studio Code/Codium, Git, and Chrome/Firefox.

What are some of the best places to look for machines that can work for this? I'd prefer Debian, though I'm fine with Ubuntu. I've looked at Dell but they seem limited with what is available.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wanted to try a framework laptop, but it's not available in my market. I have had good experiences with dell and thinkpads that have official linux support.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Everyone always says Thinkpads, which is what I might look at. :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After Superfish I'd NEVER trust Lenovo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a Lenovo I never use because they placed the right shift key and the up arrow key stupidly. As I am typing if I want to capitalize a letter using the right shift key my finger gets the up-arrow key most of the time, I don't see this for several keystrokes, leading to having to correct the issue. It's very annoying. It is a nice i7 machine otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uhh, get a keyboard?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have used the machine with a keyboard, but it is a laptop - meant to go places away from a fixed installation. I have an Asus Vivobook with a sane keyboard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Super glue a small keyboard to it, lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I bought a ThinkPad Z13 Gen 1 last year (with 32GB RAM) and it's been excellent for hobby dev work and light gaming. Lenovo officially list Linux as one of the supported operating systems. I run Fedora on it and everything worked out of the box. If it's not urgent, I'd recommend waiting for the Gen 2 which should come out next month. Gen 2 features the AMD Zen 4 CPUs, which is a decent upgrade from the Zen 3+ CPU in the Gen 1.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I'm not in a hurry so I might wait!