[plug] Looking for Laptop Recommendation

[Marcus Holmes]

I bought a Purism 14 back in 2019. Some build problems (and a friend who 
bought a Purism had the same) but the customer service was excellent, 
and it's been a huge step up from the dual-booted Dell XPS15 I was using 
before (which never seemed entirely happy running Linux).

On 5/6/21 2:46 PM, Byron Hammond wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>     <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
>     <mailto: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>
>     >> <mailto: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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>     Gregory Orange
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