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Would like to know which laptop that might be...



Pretty much most and Thinkpad or Dell works out of the box. You may have to change a setting here or there for some advanced things like adaptive charging, but most of the time the core OS works very well.

There is also Framework laptops, and Librem laptops that are linux first.

My current DD is an Ideapad with Manjaro, which even being somewhat more bleeding edge than Debian based ones, has not only been flawless, but things like Nvidia Optimus work straight out of the box, with external displays.


> Pretty much most and Thinkpad or Dell works out of the box.

…except for AMD ones with AMD GPU :( https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2020/linux-amdgpu-pixel-format...

or Intel ones with a particular wifi card https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203709

I however agree with you that at least for me, the Linux desktop on almost all laptops and desktops "just works". Especially when comparing with Macbooks - you have way less hardware choice there.




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