I prefer a framework laptop. Honestly it's one of the best laptops I've
ever owned -- it's super light, got excellent battery life, the power
management is actually pretty good, all the firmware for it is totally
open-source, and it's built from the ground up to be repairable. Over
the years I've had a lot of laptops that were missing one port I really
would have liked, and with a framework I can make sure that those ports
are on it (the ports on it are modular, so you can replace and swap them
out as needed).
Performance-wise it's quite an excellent machine. The 12th Gen Intel
i5-1240P mine shipped with has 4 performance cores, with 4 threads each
for a total of 16 hyper-threads. This vastly accelerates my build times
by allowing me to run them with 16 parallel jobs. It can reduce a C++
project's 20-minute build time on a single thread to just 1 or 2 minutes.
Outside of programming the main-board does not have any dedicated GPU.
If you wish to game on a framework Intel's integrated graphics will have
to suffice. Generally this is enough for light gaming. I am able to
play Stellaris without any issue whatsoever, but it does put a
substantial load on the processor. Anything other than light gaming may
not be possible until Framework puts out their 16" model (which is
expected to have a dedicated graphics card).
On 7/22/23 6:10 PM, Polarian wrote:
Hello,
Although this is a little off topic because this is hardware relating
to Arch Linux and not Arch Linux itself, I am curious to see what
others use.
ArchWiki has laptop pages, but that doesn't show what people prefer to
use with Arch Linux.
So I have a few questions:
- What Laptop do you use currently for Arch Linux?
- What do you use the Laptop for?
- If you could buy any Laptop for Arch Linux right now, what would you
buy?
I got a feeling there will be a range of responses, some standing
behind old Lenovo Thinkpads, and some vouching for modern laptops.
One final question, is there any Laptop company you feel will be a
good asset to the Linux community as a whole? Or better, Arch Linux
directly :P
If you respond, thank you for your time :)
Have a good night,
--
Jonathan Whitlock
