I’m on the market to buy a new laptop, and Lemmy has successfully coaxed and goaded me to give Linux a serious try.

I’ve never used *nix as my personal OS.

Which hardware/laptop do you recommend? And which OS to pair it with for a Linux newbie?

I’m a software engineer, and quit my job to pursue an MSc in AI. So my uses will be:

  • programming
  • study
  • browsing lemmy
  • gaming
  • jo3shmoo
    6·
    9 months ago

    Another happy framework user. I have the AMD 13. The modularity allowed me to completely disassemble and clean/save the machine when my wife spilled an entire chai latte on a 1 week old computer. Fan can get a little loud, but the machine just works great and there’s a great community around it.

    • Dehydrated@lemmy.world
      5·
      9 months ago

      I was so close to buying a Framework and put Linux on it, but unfortunately my job requires me to use macOS, so I got a MacBook. I read a lot about the noise caused by the single fan, but the I’d say it’s worth it for the modular ports.

      • alice_mac@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 months ago

        The MacBook’s are damn good though, so it’s not the end of the world for you.

        Plus with Asahi they are pretty close to being a decent Linux machine too.

        • Dehydrated@lemmy.world
          1·
          8 months ago

          The M3 Pro doesn’t support Asahi yet :(

          But I’m glad they got the HDMI output to work. I’m so excited for the release, I’m gonna install it as soon as it drops. I don’t necessarily need Thunderbolt, I just want some kind of video output. USB C display don’t work at this time. I also love their solution for audio: the speaker safety daemon as well as the audio preprocessor.

          I’m so excited, Asahi will be great, especially soon with KDE Plasma 6.