Re: Advice on lightweight laptops for Linux (of course)

I have an Asus machine, it is now ~4.5 years old, I gave it an SSD upgrade and replaced the battery last summer (1.5 years ago) and the only thing really bothering me a bit these days is that I have only 4GB of RAM so with mild worry I ended up enabling swap on my SSD. By the time the SSD goes

Re: Advice on lightweight laptops for Linux (of course)

The point here is that they sacrifice a lot of the think* series sturdiness for the lack of weight and thickness. And you can't upgrade the thing, it's all a single block you can't take apart. There's also a problem with later kernels getting mces and panics on overheating because of a bug in the

Re: Advice on lightweight laptops for Linux (of course)

Thanks Dan for your perspective. I'm actually going to teaching in Abu Dhabi next September so I'm really glad you brought that up. In general, I've been hearing good things about the current model (4th generation) which I believe came out earlier this year, so I assume your model is something

Re: Advice on lightweight laptops for Linux (of course)

I bought a DELL inspiron 7559 with the hybrid graphic card. It is the worst laptop I ever had, All distros have issues with it. I wanted the laptop to use the GPU and therefore preferred to use the nvidia driver. Battery life sucks. keyboard seems to be fragile. Stay away from Dell at least from

Re: Advice on lightweight laptops for Linux (of course)

My 2c for this discussion is , *STAY AWAY FROM HYBRID DISPLAYS !!! (aka Optimus or any other implementation) * The current state is disaster, with some minimal support. Only recently Fedora (25) took it as priority to support hybrid graphics cards out of the box (in Gnome3 only). and even then

Re: Advice on lightweight laptops for Linux (of course)

My favorite lightweight DEs are: 1) LxQT: really lightweight (system requirement is 128MB RAM) but some features are missing. 2) Mate or Xfce: Require 512MB of RAM but have all the features. As for distros, I suggest arch or debian-unstable. They don't install anything extra (i.e. If you didn't

Re: Advice on lightweight laptops for Linux (of course)

I've been carrying an X1 around for a couple of years now. The battery life is great, Fedora support is great, weight and convenience is quite good, except the keyboard is a bit on the weird side when it comes to the function keys and the missing insert key, but I've learned to live with that.

Re: Advice on lightweight laptops for Linux (of course)

Thanks Eli, What kind of laptop do you use? Michael On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 2:30 PM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: > Ever since getting my current laptop that weighs ~1.5kg I said I will > never get anything heavier again, it's something you can't return > from. > > Thin

Re: Advice on lightweight laptops for Linux (of course)

Ever since getting my current laptop that weighs ~1.5kg I said I will never get anything heavier again, it's something you can't return from. Thin and light devices (like the X1 and the T460S) tend to not be very upgradeable, it's a price you pay for thin & light... the SSD is most likely