wanted: suggestions for used Linux compatible notebooks

[Bret Busby]

On 08/11/2019, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> At Thu, 7 Nov 2019 21:23:40 +0000 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for
> general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 07/11/2019 15:56, M. Fioretti wrote:
>> > On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 16:23:07 PM +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>> >> On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 at 14:37, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> I've installed Linux on Dell, Lenovo (IdeaPad and ThinkPad), and
>> >>> Toshiba laptops, so I don't see why/how you can be this categoric.
>> >>
>> >
>> > OK, speaking for me only, of course: [...]
>> > But in this period of my life I cannot afford to spend that kind of
>> > time just to get to a login prompt. Not at all. Not even close.
>>
>> I'm in a similar position now but over the decades I've installed Linux
>> on lots of different machines. Most of them worked. Some didn't: Tosh
>> and Sony were the worst by far for proprietary stupidity (plus weirdos
>> like Windows ME boxes). IBM, Dell, and HP have always worked for me, but
>> nowadays it comes down to things which aren't in most playlists:
>>
>> 1. Research wireless chipsets and video chipsets because they are THE
>> most difficult to work around. Stick with a brand and version KNOWN to
>> work.
>
> Intel for both. Only hardware vendor for either that actively supports
> *open
> source* drivers. (nVidia provides drivers for Linux, but they are semi
> closed
> source and break with kernel upgrades -- not worth the hassle.)
>

I have a Dell Inspiron 580, an Acer Aspire 5750G, and an Acer Aspire
V3-772G, each with nVidia graphics thingies, and they have each worked
without problem, with Ubuntu, since 12.04, and with the UbuntuMATE
variant since the nasty elimination of gnome2 (people who kill nice
gnomes, are not nice).

With the V3-772G, it was my primary reason for switching to Ubuntu. as
Ubuntu Linux was the only non-MS operating system that I could find,
that supported both the Haskell architecture (the i7 CPU model) and
the nVidia Optimus thing.

DragonflyBSD was the only other non-MS operating system that supported
the Haskell architecture, but, as far as I am aware, still does not
support, and, still has no intention of supporting, nVidia graphics,
and, especially, not the Optimus thing.

Ubuntu Linux, since 12.04, has been the most advanced of the Linux
distributions, that I could find, in terms of hardware drivers.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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