wanted: suggestions for used Linux compatible notebooks

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 09:14:34AM +0000, Bret Busby wrote:
> 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
> >
> > 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.
> 
I have used xubuntu (which uses all the same low-level stuff as Ubuntu
of course, just a different GUI etc.) for many years and have the same
experience as you with quite a variety of hardware (Acer, Asus, a
Toshiba, lots of Thinkpads).  In general it just installs and works.

-- 
Chris Green