Question about buying a compatible laptop

[Aravisian]

@MidnightRose

Whyy?

Lenovo no longer works very well with GnuLinux. Experiences vary, but they close as much as they can. The company also spams this and other forums heavily. I have spent a great deal of time removing their bots and spam.

Lenovo's unethical business practices include that Lenovo pre-installed the "Superfish VisualDiscovery" adware on computers.

Lenovo Service Engine was caught injecting Lenovo proprietary software into the installed OS itself (Primarily Windows OS).

The list goes on... but typing this out, you make me realize I should amend my earlier comment.
It was unfair to old mules.

[MidnightRose]

Well that sucks. I bought a Lenovo laptop in December 2023. and keep Windows 11 on it in case I need it for something (it did serve its purpose when I had issues with game save files). I don't know if I will ever want to turn it into a Linux laptop, but knowing the company is shady is a big turn off...

Mules are beautiful animals

[anglaro]

@Aravisian
Hey guys after doing some research i found this

Acer Aspire 3 A315 struggles to install any ubuntu (including ZorinOS)

Hi, I have ZorinOS 15.3 installed on a few devices (desktop, laptop, etc) I am trying to help a friend install ZorinOS 16 onto an Acer Aspire 3 A315. I have googled and searched and tried multiple things (I eventually found that you need to press CTRL+S in the bios to unlock the SATA mode option to change it to AHCI in a blog for installing Debian) I have already solved multiple problems including the live disk not being visible (if the flash is made using balena-etcher as recommended here it…

It seems that its a common bug for aspire 3 to not find hdd during install, the one Im looking has an ssd

This is the link to the shop if you want to take a quick look
Acer A315 R7-5700U/16GB/512GB - Kotsovolos.gr

The weird thing is that some people didn't have any problems while some had plenty

This user on yt actuay installed mx linux on the same model without issuses 3 months ago
Installing Linux On An Ultra Budget Laptop | Only 8GB of RAM | Acer Aspire 3
Taking into account that zorin has new a newer kernel, do you think its risky to actually buy it?

[StarTreker]

Why not just buy a Star Labs computer? They are built for Linux, every bit as much for Windows.

(1) Choose a model you can afford or need.

(2) Choose the performance level you need/want

(3) Choose the OS you want pre-loaded, Zorin OS 17.3.

This way, you don't have to worry about whether or not, a certain brand will run Linux with no issue or not.

Linux Laptops - Powered by Open Source

I'd recommend the Star Lite, if you travel often, especially by plane.

I'd recommend the Star Book, if you don't travel, and you don't do heavy gaming or production workloads.

I'd recommend the Star Fighter, if you are a heavy gamer, and/or, you do production workloads.

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[anglaro]

@StarTreker
Ok I took a look at it and it seems that they do have European plugs but I need a greek keyboard something that they dont have
Also intel gpus will cause screen tearing on fractional scaling
I used a pc with intel UHD gpu before and they have the same problem
So my opinions are limited to preety much asus, acer, dell, hp, lenovo etc

[zenzen]

@anglaro

So my opinions are limited to preety much asus, acer, dell, hp, lenovo etc

Tuxedo Computers deliver to Greece, and you can choose the keyboard layout that you want (also the power cord). Plus, they specialize in Linux computers...

Actually, you can have whatever keyboard layout you want, if you are brave enough

[anglaro]

Nice, I will take a look at that
@zenzen
Do they have affordable ones for 600€ with amd and ryzen?