Iām on the market to buy a new laptop, and Lemmy has successfully coaxed and goaded me to give Linux a serious try.
Iāve never used *nix as my personal OS.
Which hardware/laptop do you recommend? And which OS to pair it with for a Linux newbie?
Iām a software engineer, and quit my job to pursue an MSc in AI. So my uses will be:
- programming
- study
- browsing lemmy
- gaming
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 thereās a great community around it.
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 Iād say itās worth it for the modular ports.
The MacBookās are damn good though, so itās not the end of the world for you.
Plus with Asahi they are pretty close to being a decent Linux machine too.
The M3 Pro doesnāt support Asahi yet :(
But Iām glad they got the HDMI output to work. Iām so excited for the release, Iām gonna install it as soon as it drops. I donāt necessarily need Thunderbolt, I just want some kind of video output. USB C display donāt work at this time. I also love their solution for audio: the speaker safety daemon as well as the audio preprocessor.
Iām so excited, Asahi will be great, especially soon with KDE Plasma 6.
