[TriLUG] Laptop recommendations

[Thomas Delrue via TriLUG]

Forgive my snarkiness but... (all in good humor, not trying to bash you :) )


On 02/19/2017 11:05 AM, Ken MacKenzie via TriLUG wrote:
> That is a lot of money for what basically a chrome book can do, which
> at its core is gentoo linux.

As stated (relatively clearly) in the original mail, chromebooks are NOT
an option.

> I consider for most cases a chromebook to be one of the best linux 
> laptops you can buy, for any money.

As stated (relatively clearly) in the original mail, chromebooks are NOT
an option.

> If you need more than what chromeos offers then you can put it in
> developer mode and use crouton to install linux along side chromeos.
> If you do plan to do that I would recommend avoiding the ARM based
> chromebooks.

As stated (relatively clearly) in the original mail, chromebooks are NOT
an option.

> Still with chromebooks (not all yet) supporting android
> apps as well as chromeos and the crouton linux install option they
> are pretty much a very powerful platform for just about anything you
> can imagine.

As stated (relatively clearly) in the original mail, chromebooks are NOT
an option.

> I am on my second chromebook of 3 in this house.  I am typing to you
>  from it on an Acer R11.  It has android app support, and right now 
> typing this from within the ubuntu trusty chroot in qtile and opera.
>  But for testament of power I have used chromebooks with the crouton
>  chroot to run realtime audio synthesis and dj mixes from stage.  Do
>  not under estimate what can be done with a chromebook.  And because
>  it is already a linux based machine all the hardware pretty much 
> works from within the chroot.  And yes you could run a full blown 
> unity setup if you wish.

This is all great, but as stated (relatively clearly) in the original
mail, chromebooks are NOT an option.

> Caveats on distro, crouton is pretty much debian or ubuntu based 
> distro install only.  And if you want touch screen support at present
> it is ubuntu based only.

As stated (relatively clearly) in the original mail, chromebooks are NOT
an option.

> On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Matt Pusateri via TriLUG < 
> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> 
>> I happen to know that Lenovo T450’s and T460’s run RHEL and Fedora
>>  pretty well.  So I imagine that they’d run other distro’s well 
>> too.
>> 
>>> On Feb 19, 2017, at 10:47 AM, Thomas Delrue via TriLUG <
>> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hey all,
>>> 
>>> A friend of mine is looking to buy a new laptop(*) with a budget
>>>  of roughly 1000-1200 USD. Obviously, this device will run 
>>> $YOUR_FAVORITE_DISTRO Linux. It's purpose is not to do heavy 
>>> computing but mostly use it for what your grandma would use it 
>>> for: i.e. browsing, listening to music, some minor photo editing
>>>  and -but this is aspirational- maybe some video editing.
>>> 
>>> What are the recommendations for laptops these days and what are
>>>  some common pitfalls that could prevent putting Linux on it? 
>>> We've looked at System76 and I think he's looked at those offered
>>> by Costco but he was underwhelmed by all of them.
>>> 
>>> (*) chromebooks are not an option

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