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
  • alice_mac@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year 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·
      1 year 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.