15 Feb
2011
15 Feb
'11
11:15 p.m.
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 04:41:25PM -0600, Josh Lawrence wrote:
Hey all,
After getting scorched by purchasing two laptops with almost zero
Linux support (battery status? what battery?), I have decided to go
looking for a laptop that is sold by a company that supports Linux.
I'm looking for any pointers to companies that sell Laptops that run
Linux here in the US. (I'm already familiar with System76.) Bonus
points if you've done business with them and have praise or warnings
to go along with the pointers. Feel free to shill for your own
company if you want, just make sure if you recommend a laptop that
Linux can read the damn battery status. :)
I bought an Asus laptop (Core 2 Duo, 2.33Ghz) 4 years ago and it is still my main audio
production station on Linux. There was some weirdage with the ATA support; a SATA drive
would have been a better choice, but that wasn't their fault, it was mine in
configuring the machine.
I also have an Asus EEE in which everything "just works", better than any
hardware I've ever had... probably because Asus used to actually ship the EEE with
Linux.
I have used ThinkPads before, and they do indeed work well on Linux, but I absolutely HATE
HATE HATE that damned nurple. I will never buy a Thinkpad again. Gimme a trackpad or
trackball or a real mouse any day, and please, no nurple.
http://xkcd.com/243/
-ken