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What's the best laptop for Linux these days? It's been over a decade for me since I touched one. Will I still need to mess with xorg.conf every second week?


no if you go with the laptop most are already configured for you and nvidia and ati support is much improved. You can do everything with the gui.


> you can do everything via the gui

Or not. I didn't change my default settings and I'm not running Linux Mint or Ubuntu or some other newbie friendly distro. It's just all taken care of. At least games run fine, though it must be said that the games I play are either from '99 or not graphics-heavy. Factorio is the heaviest one.


What laptop are you using, if you don't mind my asking? Is there somewhere where someone has explicitly listed out the laptops that are most compatible with most Linux distros?


I don't know about a list of models but most laptops work quite fine for me. Usually I prefer Intel and nVidia so that might or might not have something to do with it. I've got an Asus N56VB S4054H myself and replaced the HDD with a Plextor 256GB SSD.




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