Which laptop and distro would you recommend for a Linux newb (someone who has never used Linux)? Preferably hardware with decent battery life and isn’t horribly slow.
Update: Walked away with this Dell Inspiron i5 3520 with Best Buy’s black friday deal: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sku/6553026.p
Yeah Thinkpads are obviously a popular suggestion here. I’d check out System76 too (their cheapest stuff may or may not fit your definition of “cheap”).
I’m looking at them system76s right now thanks to you, you bastard! (Just kidding, I’m looking to get basically exactly what they’ve got, little expensive for me but it “exists” so that’s fine lol).
Real question though, are they as great as they look? I’ll immediately be ditching the OS in favor of Fedora, SUSE, straight debian no buntu, or something that likes KDE (if desktop. I actually like gnome on laptops a lot), but otherwise this seems to be pretty damn good. Anything I should know before I buy? And is there anything I should look at as a direct competitor, or is this one pretty much the one in the genre?
I haven’t used any of them, but there are Tuxedo, Slimbook (with official KDE collab) and Starlabs as well. Framework claim good Linux compatibility too.
Thank you, I’ll check all these out!