Those of you who use Linux on a laptop, which laptop do you use? I’ve been thinking of buying a new laptop to replace my current ageing macbook and would love to run Linux on it.
Those of you who use Linux on a laptop, which laptop do you use? I’ve been thinking of buying a new laptop to replace my current ageing macbook and would love to run Linux on it.
I almost bought a Starbook in January, but I opted for the M1 macbook air instead because my school mandates I must use MacOS or Windows. I went with a mac because I’ve been using Linux for 10 years and I am much more comfortable in a unix based bash/zsh environment than I am using a windows / powershell environment.
Honestly, I use a raspberry pi 400 as my main computer most of the time, if you don’t need much performance it’s a lot better for your wallet and the environment to install a SSD into any old laptop and breathe new life into it.
:( Why is that?
My tests are proctored virtually, the proctoring software for some classes does not run on Linux and they do not want to train their proctors on Linux.
I’ve heard some students have had success using Linux anyway, but especially during the pandemic I didn’t want to risk wasting a proctor’s time and taking a time slot away from another student all because I would’ve been trying to bend the rules.