Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.2602:f977:0:1::2!not-for-mail From: Carl Fink Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware Subject: Re: Subnotebook? Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 13:29:35 -0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Message-ID: References: Reply-To: carl@finknetwork.com Injection-Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 13:29:35 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="2602:f977:0:1::2"; logging-data="17725"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (NetBSD) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.hardware:3769 On 2025-02-11, Theo wrote: > A strategy is to buy a laptop that is available with pre-installed Linux > (either directly or the Windows version of the same), because you know there > at least extant drivers for all the hardware. Exactly. I've been around this block a few times. I have an ASUS laptop in my backpack that I installed Ubuntu on a couple of years ago, but I want something more portable, something I can slap in a shoulder bag and set up on an airplane tray table. (The ASUS is too big to be stable on a tray table.) Like someone else said in this thread, I don't feel like spending hours struggling because the sound chip (or functionality on a new mobile chipset) isn't supported out of the box) if I don't have to. Thanks, all. -- Carl Fink carl@finknetwork.com https://reasonablyliterate.com https://nitpicking.com If you want to make a point, somebody will take the point and stab you with it. -Kenne Estes