On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 12:29:27PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > If any of you have a new laptop released this year, please add them to > h-node.org It is a crowd sourced database, so the more people > contribute the more useful it becomes.
Curious whether whether Linux works on a laptop has still remained a variable. It's good to be cautious but may be a better approach is to select a laptop based on specs - budget consideration and just ensure that the chipsets mentioned in the specs are supported on your favorite distro's recent version. I wouldn't advise this but personally I did not even do this much due diligence in 2 of my purchases. In my purchase a few years back, Linux was still maturing, it took several days to figure out how to get things working on Linux, but they all eventually did and that laptop still serves me after 11 years of use. In my recent purchase a week back, Debian 8 OS worked just out of the box. There were some non free firmwares to be installed, though availability wasn't a problem. I normally use NetBSD and it is nearly impossible to ensure workability up front with a new hardware, on such a niche and small userbase system. In such case, as is happening with my most recent purchase, I participate with developers, help them test, send logs, stack traces, try their patches and so on, just a small contribution to great work those people do to ensure that OSes run on variety of hardware. But with Linux I am not sure whether this approach works so well. I'd also consider buying those that do not come with pre-installed Windows as cost of Windows adds to the price (unless you want Windows). Mayuresh. _______________________________________________ plug-mail mailing list plug-mail@plug.org.in http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail
