On 2016-11-04 12:24, Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire wrote:
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016, at 09:03 AM, Bob Dunlop via Hampshire wrote:
Avoid modern Lenovo [1]. Although they've reluctantly issued a BIOS
fix it sounds like it a performance hit.
Lenovo's Thinkpad line is still mostly pretty good with Linux, at
least
when I was looking last year. Those business-oriented systems seem to
be
developed separately to the consumer-grade ones which get in the news
for the wrong reasons. The business lines are more expensive, but you
do
get a better built system.
Is anyone interested in distilling the kind of info we're discussing
into a nice 'how to buy a computer for Linux' website? Is there
already
such a site? I did one quick search and found posts like these:
http://www.howtogeek.com/185286/how-to-buy-a-laptop-for-linux/
http://www.ebay.com/gds/Linux-Laptop-Buying-Guide-/10000000177741943/g.html
...but no nice friendly overview site. Maybe this is something we
could
discuss/work on at a future PLUG meeting.
Thomas
One relatively inexpensive alternative is to use a Chromebook and
install Crouton. Intel based Chrome devices have a wider support
compared to ARM Chrome devices.
Arch and Ubuntu
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