Linux-friendly laptops

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Phoronix is hosting a 2017 Linux Laptop Survey
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zT8jIJuHcLqUKdvZ3De8PW1An8hdteFW2Nr92tMyQyM>.
>From their site:While Linux laptop compatibility is much better than where
it was years ago, it's still not too uncommon to run into display/hybrid
issues, shorter battery life under Linux than Windows or macOS, touchpad
problems, and other occasional compatibility/performance shortcomings. So
we've established this Linux Laptop Survey
<http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=2017-Linux-Laptop-Survey>
in
conjunction with Linux stakeholders to hopefully gather more feedback that
will be useful to many different parties...
The survey will be online until July 6th, after which the results will be
publicly available, and will determine the most popular brands, distros,
screen sizes, and GPUs, as well as common pain points and popular price
points. And one particularly interestng question asks respondents what
they'd like to see in a "dream Linux laptop."
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On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:

>
> On 06/24/2017 12:01 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
>
> On 24/06/17 16:24, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>
>
> I'm looking at getting (yet anothre) replacement laptop and this time
> I'd like to buy one that works well with Linux.
>
> Current options are:
>
> ASUS G751JT (2 of these, possibly 3)
> Dell M6700 Covet
>
> The Dell is slightly more expensive, but I'm leaning toward it because
> I'm fairly familiar with Dells and they tend to be OS agnostic,
> durable and reliable.
>
> I've always used HP's Elitebooks for Ubuntu. Very reliable, very easy to
> install & no hassle setting up. It just does the business.
>
> Recommended.
>
> Cheers, Phil.
>
>
>
> Just a note on Dells: I have three (don't ask!) and two of them have
> Broadcom wifi boards. PCLinuxOS can be programmed to used them, but NOT
> easily,
> and now that Broadcom has been bought out by someone, maybe not at
> all--don't know. However, one of those with the Broadcom board runs MINT 17
> right out of the box--no setup required!
>
> --doug
>
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