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
  • fosforus@sopuli.xyz
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    10 months ago

    Not a recommendation, but a personal note: I’m waiting for the System76 Virgo, which is their (perhaps hyped up) upcoming Laptop built in Denver by themselves, instead of being a Clevo thing. But I have no idea how long I have to wait. Could be years.

    There was some publicity about it about 5 months ago, and there’s this github repo: https://github.com/system76/virgo – but not much more. Not sure if it’s still alive.

    I hope it won’t be a lot more expensive than Macbooks are when it comes out.