Hmm...Get something which has Intel Wireless + Intel/Nvidia Graphics and Intel Chipset. These days almost all hardware is supported out of the box. it depends on your budget. While buying, take a Ubuntu Live CD with you and boot the laptop to check comparability. you can also cross-check support by running lspci and pasting output in Debian[1]. few more resources for your help. Ubuntu Laptop testing[2] Dell with Ubuntu factory installed[3] [1]http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ [2]https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Laptop/Reports [3]http://is.gd/ckHzH Hope it helps. Regards, Gaurish Sharma www.gaurishsharma.com 2010/5/22 Lukas Grässlin <lukasgraesslin@gmx.de>:
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 04:33:36PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
It's that time for me again... my desktop is getting long in the tooth so I'm starting to look around for a replacement. This time I thought I'd also include laptops in my search. However, with laptops it's difficult to find out just how well they work with Linux. Are all the built-in devices, webcams, fingerprint scanners etc, fully supported? Is the power management (ACPI) fully supported? Etc, etc...
In the past I've heard good things about Linux on IBM's ThinkPads. But I've heard some VERY bad things about getting Linux working well on Lenovo's recent models.
So, I resort to ask for advice on this mailing list.
What laptops should I have a look at? Is there some brand (Dell, HP, ...) that is more Linux friendly than others?
/M
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I'm using a Lenoxo Thinkpad x200 and except for the fingerprint reader _everything_ works completely fine.
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