Ask HN: Linux laptop on a budget?

Re:Ask HN: Linux laptop on a budget? by infiniteseeker on Friday February 23, 2018 @04:36PM (#16449836)

I am typing this on a Lenovo X220. This laptop has an i5 with 8G of RAM (going to add 8G more to get to 16) and a 250G SSD (it came with 4G of RAM and a 250G hd but I replaced the 4G stick with an 8G DDR3 stick and the hd with ssd). It is almost as good as anything on the market out there - barring retina display. I would suggest this without hesitation.

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Re:Ask HN: Linux laptop on a budget? by jason_slack on Friday February 23, 2018 @04:38PM (#16449849)

What distro are you using? Did it work out of the box or did you have to tweak conf files to get it working?

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Re:Ask HN: Linux laptop on a budget? by infiniteseeker on Friday February 23, 2018 @04:52PM (#16449947)

Ubuntu, but I have tried Tumbleweed, Arch and OpenBSD on these laptops and no issues whatsoever. Works OOTB for Ubuntu. For OpenbSD, I had to dl the "non-free" firmware for Wifi but em0 (ethernet) works out of the box

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Re:Ask HN: Linux laptop on a budget? by jason_slack on Sunday February 25, 2018 @06:44PM (#16461921)

I tried 16.04.3 and it failed and after I did get it to install nothing worked.

I then tried 17.10.1 and it worked! All the hardware works even the backlit keyboard!

Thank you so much for letting me know you had success!

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