Re: [lopsa-tech] Linux on laptops

2015-11-13 Thread Yves Dorfsman
On 2015-11-13 12:23, Peter Loron wrote: > The Librem laptops from Purism are very nice, although they fail the > cheap criteria. > > https://puri.sm/ They look good, I like the idea behind it, but some of us have to have a trackpoint! -- http://yves.zioup.com gpg: 4096R/32B0F416 __

Re: [lopsa-tech] Linux on laptops

2015-11-13 Thread Peter Loron
The Librem laptops from Purism are very nice, although they fail the cheap criteria. https://puri.sm/ -Pete > On Nov 12, 2015, at 04:19, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) > wrote: > > I'm looking for a small, light, cheap, laptop to run linux. I prefer either > ubuntu desktop or

Re: [lopsa-tech] Linux on laptops

2015-11-13 Thread waz0wski
The Asus Zenbook UX305 could be a contender - review > On Nov 12, 2015, at 5:19 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) > wrote: > > I'm looking for a small, light, cheap, laptop to run linux. I prefer either > ub

Re: [lopsa-tech] Linux on laptops

2015-11-12 Thread Matthew Butch
Agreed. I run Ubuntu at work on a E6530 and it works great. > On Nov 12, 2015, at 07:32 , Steven Miano wrote: > > I've had very little headache when it comes to Fedora on Dell's Latitude > E6430s and similar within the line (E series in general). > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Edward Ne

Re: [lopsa-tech] Linux on laptops

2015-11-12 Thread Aniruddha
Most HP business laptops and desktops (Probook, Elite) offically support Linux. On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) < lop...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > I'm looking for a small, light, cheap, laptop to run linux. I prefer > either ubuntu desktop or fedora. > > > > I know there

Re: [lopsa-tech] Linux on laptops

2015-11-12 Thread Yves Dorfsman
On 2015-11-12 05:19, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: > > I know there's a very good chance that any random linux will work fine on any > random laptop I buy, but I certainly prefer to have some greater assurance - > ideally it's an officially supported distro, or maybe there's some unofficial >

Re: [lopsa-tech] Linux on laptops

2015-11-12 Thread Jason Barbier
The dell deveoper series,  and system76 are my go tos for offical oem linux support. I add Lenovo ThinkPads on there for am sure it works great out of the box but isn't offically supported. -- Jason Barbier | E: jab...@serversave.us GPG Key-ID: B5F75B47(http://kusuriya.devio.us/pubkey.asc) On

Re: [lopsa-tech] Linux on laptops

2015-11-12 Thread Matt Okeson-Harlow
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 12:19:50PM +, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: > I'm looking for a small, light, cheap, laptop to run linux. I prefer either > ubuntu desktop or fedora. > > I know there's a very good chance that any random linux will work fine on > any random laptop I buy, but I certa

Re: [lopsa-tech] Linux on laptops

2015-11-12 Thread Steven Miano
I've had very little headache when it comes to Fedora on Dell's Latitude E6430s and similar within the line (E series in general). On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) < lop...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > I'm looking for a small, light, cheap, laptop to run linux. I prefer > ei

[lopsa-tech] Linux on laptops

2015-11-12 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)
I'm looking for a small, light, cheap, laptop to run linux. I prefer either ubuntu desktop or fedora. I know there's a very good chance that any random linux will work fine on any random laptop I buy, but I certainly prefer to have some greater assurance - ideally it's an officially supported d