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0 pointsFreak_NL9y ago0 comments

It is a pain to seek out a laptop designed for Windows and then install a Linux distribution on it, but you can also just get a laptop from a vendor¹ that specialises in GNU/Linux compatible hardware and get a working Ubuntu laptop from the minute you start it up — perhaps half an hour longer if you want to install a different distribution. Everything just works.

1: E.g., System76.

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jlgaddis9y ago

Perhaps, but if you purchase from System76, you then spend the next six months dealing with random hardware issues and the occasional software issue and eventually you end up wiping it, giving it to the kids or a friend, and buy yourself another laptop -- putting you right back where you were six months prior.

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1: E.g., System76.

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