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Re: Debian-friendly laptop

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On Wed, 19 May 2021 09:41:39 +0200
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 10:09:12AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Ma, 18 mai 21, 22:49:31, George Shuklin wrote:
> > > I'm trying to choose between Purism and System76, and, as far as I
> > > understand they both supports linux very well, but..
> > > 
> > > Which one is better? Or, may me I missed and there are other coreboot (no
> > > ME) vendors with high-grade Linux support?
> > > 
> > > I have a negative experience with XPS13 DE (which is shipped with Ubuntu,
> > > but even with all tweaks and random sleeps they added to vanilla Ubuntu, is
> > > far from perfect in Linux support)...
> >  
> > Thinkpads are generally very good quality (even if expensive) and have 
> > traditionally been rather well supported by Linux.
> 
> That's what I do whenever the "nice" alternatives mentioned above are
> out of my reach (as is currently the case): refurbished Thinkpads.
> They are robust enough to support a second life, and installation is
> pretty smooth most of the time.

+1

My main machine for the past five years has been a W550s, purchased
refurbished from eBay. I've replaced some of the RAM (one of
the DIMMS was / went bad) and the keyboard (a bunch of keys failed), and
I have purchased a replacement SSD (the current one is out of space)
that I'm going to install when I get a chance, but on the whole, the
machine is still going fairly strong (although the processor is anemic
and I really could use 16GB of ram rather than the current 4+4).

Would I have had the bad RAM on a new machine? Would I at least have
caught it while still under warranty? Would the keyboard have failed?
Who knows ...

My previous main machine had been a T60. I gave that up when its
keyboard failed. I know that one of the main selling points of
ThinkPads is their keyboards: they are certainly very good, but
apparently they don't last forever ;)

Celejar

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