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What laptop do you use/recommend? (lemmy.org)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Looking to upgrade from an old Latitude, curious as to what mobile hardware you folks use for writing your open source projects?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just bought a Thinkpad x1 carbon preloaded with Fedora and it's pretty fantastic.

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

I've heard a lot of good stuff about the Carbons, especially the older ones as Linux machines.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

So far I love it. I bought it brand new from Lenovo and you could pick from I think 3 or 4 distros. I picked fedora, which it came with 38. When I first booted up it had a bios update which honestly surprised me that they would bother. Then upgraded to 40 through the fedora upgrade path. All painless.

I was fully prepared to make a windows live USB just to flash the bios/firmware.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I have one from 2015 that is literally falling apart, but it still works okay. I'm going to be sad when I have to finally give up on it. Unfortunately, it's not great for repair. I was going to replace the keyboard because some keys are malfunctioning, but it requires basically pulling apart the whole computer including some parts that are taped on.