[plug] Looking for Laptop Recommendation

Byron Hammond byronester at gmail.com
Thu May 6 20:46:15 AWST 2021


I bought exactly the same Greg and I too have had a positive experience
with it an Ubuntu.
Fingerprint sensor works and all (after some manual setup).


On Thu, 6 May 2021 at 16:43, Gregory Orange <home at oranges.id.au> wrote:

> I got close to buying a System76 last year, but ended up with a Lenovo
> X1 Carbon 7th Gen. Works great with vanilla Ubuntu, dock and external
> monitors etc. Thanks to PLUG for the input - archives for the discussion
> start at
> http://lists.plug.org.au/pipermail/plug/2020-October/thread.html but go
> on for a few months(!) after that.
>
> HTH,
> Greg.
>
>
> On 6/5/21 4:23 pm, J0rd wrote:
> > As do Dell with their "developer edition", however that appears not to
> > be listed on their Australian web site currently. System76 often get a
> > mention too as a retailer targeting Linux specifically
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On 6 May 2021, at 16:14, Byron Hammond <byronester at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 
> >> Just in case you weren't aware Lenovo are officially supporting and
> >> selling with Fedora I think it was.
> >>
> >> from my mobile
> >>
> >> On Thu, 6 May 2021, 3:48 pm , <kelliefield at iinet.net.au
> >> <mailto:kelliefield at iinet.net.au>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     Hi all,____
> >>
> >>     __ __
> >>
> >>     I’m new to this mailing list.  I have run linux in the past, both
> >>     dual boot and stand alone OS.____
> >>
> >>     __ __
> >>
> >>     I am after recommendations for a laptop that has good hardware
> >>     compatibility and will be able to operate either dual boot or a
> >>     stand alone Debian based OS.____
> >>
> >>     __ __
> >>
> >>     I have read that an intel Chromebook with an intel chip may be an
> >>     option.  Has anyone had success with this?____
> >>
> >>     __ __
> >>
> >>     Regards,____
> >>
> >>     __ __
> >>
> >>     Kellie____
> >>
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