So far I love it. I bought it brand new from Lenovo and you could pick from I think 3 or 4 distros.
I picked fedora, which it came with 38.
When I first booted up it had a bios update which honestly surprised me that they would bother. Then upgraded to 40 through the fedora upgrade path. All painless.
I was fully prepared to make a windows live USB just to flash the bios/firmware.
I just installed fedora 40. Was absolutely amazed when my three monitors just worked. Installed some games and realized I had forgotten to install the Nvidia drivers. Installed them... Laptop locked up wouldn't boot. Unplugged the third monitor and it started working. Screw Nvidia. Not buying another system with their trash. Fix your driver's you selfish POS
A suggestion for everyone that's kinda new, and to be honest, grizzled vets too... Use chatgpt as a trouble shooting tool. It's really surprising how good it is sometimes. I've had it write bash scripts in minutes, solve obscure Firefox issues, fix game settings for barely compatible games... So many things
I had a couple Asus laptops over the last few years, and didn't much care for them overall. Too bulky, and finicky at times. For my current laptop I went with Lenovo legion slim and I much prefer it.
If you want to go Linux gaming, then I'd stay away from Asus completely. There is a project called Asus ctl, which I had ok luck using but it's better for older Asus models.
If you truly want to focus on Linux gaming, system76 makes some similar laptops to the Asus lineup but with more compatible hardware.
There is also the fedora slimbook which probably gives you the best form factor with at least a somewhat modern GPU.
Lastly, the best option, regardless of windows or Linux is to get a Framework laptop. Though they can get pricey
Ooof don't mistake intent... It's difficult over text. Rattly ass 4 cylinder isn't a term I coined.
Some sound good, some sound bad, modern engines are stifled and amazing all at the same time. Mainstream appliance 4 cylinder are designed for fuel and emissions
I put a couple use cases above on another comment, but as I'm reading through these another one popped into my head. I have a steamdeck with controllers as my media center, the other day I was playing a game and wanted to look something up on the wiki for it. I got it done on my phone but it was a ton of pinch zoom, search page and it was just tedious. So add that to the use cases.
As for macos, I am not in the apple ecosystem at all, I use a macbook air for my day job and it's serviceable but I'm just a linux guy really. If I can get KDE on it, then even better. I've been using KDE since slackware in the late 90's.
The macbook air is handy though, when I have to go to the office (occasional) I don't have to charge it and it's small enough to carry everywhere.
Being honest here, I actually went down the chromebook route first but then I realized that to get a chromebook that uses a snapdragon cpu, and has a small formfactor, with linux support was actually a difficult combo, and if I did find one, there is a lenvo thinkpad for example, it was like $1000 or so.
Funny you ask, I was trying to book an appointment for a local company on my phone the other day and it wasn't rendering properly. It's crazy to me in this day and age but it seems that there are still companies that have non mobile friendly websites. It's happened a lot lately too, tried to order some food and the site used it's own process for delivery, and didn't render worth a crap on mobile. Basically a ton of little reasons why I want something like I describe.
Indeed, but also it's worth a read if you plan on making it your daily driver. The article touches on things like, even though it's arch based, it uses an old kernel among some other things.
While you're right about the spirit of the use case, you're missing the details.
Hmm at this budget you're likely shopping for deals. Mb cpu combos. Basically stuff bundled together. That's likely to dictate what parts you get to buy.
USA, two creality cr10sprov2's with tiny machines firmware and upgrades. I sold the first one for $250 I think
Might have been $225 I can't remember as it was last year.
So far I love it. I bought it brand new from Lenovo and you could pick from I think 3 or 4 distros. I picked fedora, which it came with 38. When I first booted up it had a bios update which honestly surprised me that they would bother. Then upgraded to 40 through the fedora upgrade path. All painless.
I was fully prepared to make a windows live USB just to flash the bios/firmware.