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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
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pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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uhh ThinkPad yes ThinkPad ThinkPad is linux THINKPAD PENGUIN

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fine print: oh yea also framework

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SLGC@lemmy.world
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Which ThinkPad?

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derpgon@programming.dev
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Rocking E15 Gen2 with AMD CPU for about 3 years now, can’t complain besides the fucking fingerprint reader having proprietary drivers (thus not working on Linux).

So, the E model line is a nice work laptop with basically no GPU performance whatsoever.

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pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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yes

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ChillPill@lemmy.world
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I’ve been rocking a first gen X1 Yoga (6th gen intel) for like 5-6 years, three or so of those years I’ve been using Pop!_OS and its been pretty good. I suspect that a 6th gen intel may be a little lacking for your uses, just to say that most ThinkPads will be good.

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drdnl@programming.dev
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We use about seven ThinkPad T16 and P16s professionally with zero issues. Can recommend

Edit: the AMD versions, those generally work better with Linux

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