I’m on the market to buy a new laptop, and Lemmy has successfully coaxed and goaded me to give Linux a serious try.

I’ve never used *nix as my personal OS.

Which hardware/laptop do you recommend? And which OS to pair it with for a Linux newbie?

I’m a software engineer, and quit my job to pursue an MSc in AI. So my uses will be:

  • programming
  • study
  • browsing lemmy
  • gaming
    • drdnl@programming.dev
      2·
      11 months ago

      We use about seven ThinkPad T16 and P16s professionally with zero issues. Can recommend

      Edit: the AMD versions, those generally work better with Linux

    • derpgon@programming.dev
      1·
      11 months ago

      Rocking E15 Gen2 with AMD CPU for about 3 years now, can’t complain besides the fucking fingerprint reader having proprietary drivers (thus not working on Linux).

      So, the E model line is a nice work laptop with basically no GPU performance whatsoever.

    • ChillPill@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 months ago

      I’ve been rocking a first gen X1 Yoga (6th gen intel) for like 5-6 years, three or so of those years I’ve been using Pop!_OS and its been pretty good. I suspect that a 6th gen intel may be a little lacking for your uses, just to say that most ThinkPads will be good.