[TriLUG] Laptop recommendations

[Ken MacKenzie via TriLUG]

My hp14 had a great trackpad.  The r11 is ok but the hp14 is better.  Still
I had no problems with it.  Then again the r11 being a touchscreen also
helps.

On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Ron Kelley <rkelleyrtp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Agreed.  I bought a Toshiba Chromebook-2, installed a custom firmware
> (free, available on the ‘net), replaced the 16G boot disk with a 256G M-2
> SSD, and run pure Ubuntu 16.04.  This thing flies!  Very light-weight, runs
> all Linux apps, etc.  The only downside is the trackpad (I use an external
> USB mouse).
>
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> On Feb 19, 2017, at 11:05 AM, Ken MacKenzie via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
> wrote:
>
> That is a lot of money for what basically a chrome book can do, which at
> its core is gentoo linux.  I consider for most cases a chromebook to be one
> of the best linux laptops you can buy, for any money.  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.  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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Ken
>
> 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.
> >
> > Matt P.
> >
> >> 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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