Hey lemmings!

I’m looking to get a new laptop in the near future but I keep getting lost in the details of what is good versus what I’d need.

I’m not really a gamer and already have a console for most games, but would like something that can at least run something like league of legends.

I also would be doing some light video editing but even so I don’t think I’d need some top of the line cutting edge option.

So I thought I’d ask Lemmy for their thoughts on what’s a good general purpose/workish laptop in 2023!

  • Duamerthrax
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    1 year ago

    Second this. I threw Linux Mint on a 2012 Macbook Pro and have been happy with it. Had to install wifi drivers, but it was the last model with ethernet, so it wasn’t a big deal.

    I get mine off of woot.

    • yimby
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      1 year ago

      Keep in mind new Macbooks have proprietary silicon so you can’t easily install Linux on it yet. There’s a group working on Asahi Linux to bring Linux to Apple silicon, but they have to reverse engineering Apple’s whole architecture to get there. There’s a functional alpha after 3 years of work, but functionality still isn’t there (no brightness control, bluetooth, etc).