The Asus Vivobook is a good deal.
But as an American you might be able to afford the Framework.
You've been given a lot of good advice, especially about Nvidia cards, but watch out for wifi adaptors too. As far as I know there are no problems with fairly recent hardware, but I've been caught out when trying Mint on an old laptop.
I've been running Debian 11 and now 12 on an HP EliteBook 840 G5 (i7 8550U) and everything works out flawlessly out of the box. When I say everything I really mean everything, even special keyboard keys for brightness, volume working after install. Battery lasts way longer than under Windows and the computer runs much colder.
Any will do, just make sure it has Intel WiFi.
Eh, I run Ubuntu on my newish XPS and it has issues I've never seen with using Linux before. If I knew ahead of time I would've gladly paid a few hundred extra not to have these problems.
Specifically, sometimes the keyboard just stops working (after waking from sleep) and I'll need to restart once or twice to get it working again. Also, 5G wifi loses its shit when I'm at home due to it randomly switching between my main AP and the extender. I only use 2G at home 😔.
Don't get an HP. Had one for work that I had to change to Ubuntu, and I couldn't find any compatible WiFi drivers somehow.
YEAH it sucks when drivers for hardware aren't Linux compatible (my current drawing tablet doesn't support it... RIP). I'll be sure 2 head ur warning about HP!
I have been using a framework 13 for a year now, happy with it so far.
Just get whatever. Part of the fun is hacking it to get it working.
Novacustom looks pretty good. Wish it had amd GPU options but other than that the prices are right for the hardware.
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