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KingBoo , in My little brother loves the dualboot setup I installed for him. He says "It's like iOS"

That’s awesome. I wish I had a sibling with an interest like this.

jerd , in Best <$400 USD Ultrabook for Debian 12

Back in my college days, I first used a T60 (not ultrabook) then moved to an x220 (nearing ultrabook). The X220 was perfect, removable battery, all day battery, good build quality, perfect for linux. I rocked mint with DWM for the 2nd half of my uni days.

-spam- , in Best <$400 USD Ultrabook for Debian 12
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I've got a Dell latitude 7390 that came from a refurb place. Was less than $400 australian, another $100 to throw a bigger nvme drive and more RAM in it.

Runs like a champ with zero issues on Fedora.

Got it initially to mess around with some different distros but have been using it almost exclusively instead of my macbook pro.

Lemmyin ,

Which MacBook Pro do you have?

-spam- ,
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A 2018 13 inch, the first of their quad core i5 offerings in a laptop.

Spec wise it's about the same as the latitude is currently. Of course the screen and general finish are nicer than the dell but for my current laptop use case, having the same OS and tools as my desktop makes up for it.

Lemmyin ,

Ah nice! Tried Linux on the MBP? I just this week took the plunge with my 2016 MacBook 13,3. It was a MISSION to get everything working but I think later models have better support.

nivenkos , in Plan on getting a Linux laptop: any suggestions?

The Asus Vivobook is a good deal.

But as an American you might be able to afford the Framework.

wanghis_khan , in POSIX is just an API between programs and the kernel?

its a way for scripts or program to be portable and compatible.

Tiuku , in What portable utilities do you carry with you.

Just a non-bootable stick with a copy of my KeePass database along with standalone executables for Linux and Windows. Just in case I lose my phone.

BigTrout75 , in Plan on getting a Linux laptop: any suggestions?

Just get whatever. Part of the fun is hacking it to get it working.

_calm_bomb_ , in what counts as a distro
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Here’s Wikipedia’s article on the subject.

kenbw2 , in what counts as a distro

Relevant: www.theregister.com/2023/…/linux_desktop_debate/?…

joel_feila OP ,
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Yes i Read that that’s why i asled

surfrock66 , in Which DE would be a better fit for awesomeWM?
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For a long time my setup was mate with Compton and awesome but I had to switch to just mate as my family and kids started using the computer more. Mate’s gtk suite is lightweight and complements awesome well as it gets out of the way, and caja/pluma/etc worked well with very few rough edges.

Sir_Simon_Spamalot , in Does System76 compile Coreboot for every motherboard they use?

I hope that Framework would have this in the future!

lodronsi , in Best <$400 USD Ultrabook for Debian 12

I recently picked up a Dell latitude 7300 for less than $300usd. It has two sodimm slots (supports 32gb) and up to 1TB SSD. I’m pretty happy with it although it’s a touch older than the x1 carbon gen8. The 7400 is slightly larger with a 14” display and is the same generation otherwise.

I’m running Linux mint on it and haven’t tried your specific distro.

rotopenguin ,
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I just picked up one of those Latitudes too, and sent it back. I was not impressed with how dell “refurbished” it - it was chock full of dust and the display hinges were practically falling off. To top it off, the battery wouldn’t charge. Nobody spend 2 seconds looking over this dud before they shipped it to me.

nbailey , in How do you keep track of all apps you install and their configurations?
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Write install and maintenance guides, save them somewhere public. Automation is good, but documentation and practicing technical writing is better.

cleric_splash , in How do you keep track of all apps you install and their configurations? 
<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="color:#323232;">function pkglist -d "Gets list of installed packages"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  # Prevent descriptions in other languages
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  set -l LANG C
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  # Define pkglists location
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  set -l dot $HOME/.config/dotfiles
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  echo "(1/5) RPM-OSTREE status"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  rpm-ostree status > $dot/pkglist.rpm-ostree --booted
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  echo "(2/5) Identify flatpaks"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  flatpak list --app --columns=application > $dot/pkglist.flatpak
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  echo "(3/5) Identify pinned flatpak runtimes"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  flatpak pin > $dot/pkglist.flatpak.pinned
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  echo "(4/5) Identify flatpak overrides"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  for i in (cat $dot/pkglist.flatpak)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      if test -s (flatpak override --show --user $i|psub)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	  echo $i
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	  flatpak override --show --user $i
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	  echo
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      end
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  end > $dot/pkglist.flatpak.overrides
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  echo "(5/5) Save KDE configuration"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  fedora konsave -s kde_configuration --force
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  # to apply configuration
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  # fedora konsave -a kde_configuration
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  git -C $dot st
</span><span style="color:#323232;">end
</span>
Shady_Shiroe , in Best <$400 USD Ultrabook for Debian 12
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Lenovo Thinkpad and Dell latitude laptops are usually great for reliability and repairability, ifixit has repairability scores if you’re ever curious www.ifixit.com/laptop-repairability

EDIT: HP also scores high on a few of their products but I find the company to be quite annoying with their proprietary crap and general business practices (e.g. printer subscriptions)

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