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QUESTION: What's a good laptop to run Linux on?

ww asks (11 months ago)

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Robert answers (11 months ago)

The beauty of Linux is that you can run it on just about anything -- as long as you can find supported drivers for the chipsets (network, video, disk, etc.). I remember my first Linux install was on an old 286-based Tandy system -- worked just fine!

Nowadays, if the laptop is commercially available you can bet some distribution of Linux will come out supporting it. However, you want a laptop that is going to last no matter what OS you put on it.

I'm a big fan of Dell and Sony. Lenova makes some good laptops too, but I am not a big of a fan of them since the quality seems to have went downhill after they bought out IBM's Thinkpad line. Two of my favorites are listed below.

Good luck no matter what OS you ultimately run!