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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by caslon on Saturday April 03, 2021 @04:08AM (#26679177)
Not to give an argument along the lines of "You're holding it wrong," but...okay, yeah, I'm going to do that.

You hold a gun in one way. If you mess that up in any fashion, you probably won't hit what you're trying to, and, worse, might shoot yourself.

Saying things like "There is no official site" is holding Linux wrong. Linux isn't an operating system. Linux is just a kernel.

So phrase your search the right way:

"laptops that support GNU/Linux installation"

You'll be surprised to find, immediately it lists a whole bunch of laptops sold with a Linux kernel on them! I don't normally use Google, but just for you, I checked on it: It even has an easy-answers page.

If you want the whole package, look up an operating system, not a kernel.

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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by 2muchcoffeeman on Saturday April 03, 2021 @12:46PM (#26682499)
With my latest Linux machine I actually picked some easy to get laptops on a steep discount and then started googling to find other people’s experience. I’ve been using some Linux distribution or other for a long time.

But that’s not what a newbie or outsider sees. And until there is the kind of assurance from some Linux distribution or whatever, all criticisms of the difficulty of getting a Linux machine running are valid.

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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by caslon on Saturday April 03, 2021 @12:59PM (#26682629)
> And until there is the kind of assurance from some Linux distribution or whatever, all criticisms of the difficulty of getting a Linux machine running are valid.

Great, they're invalid! Off the top of my head, System76 and KDE both sell laptops running it. As both of them have distributions, and selling something is more or less as close to assurance as you can get, by your own logic here the criticisms are worthless.

I don't even care about "le Linux on the desktop meme", personally, I just find these criticisms incredibly lazy and transparently without merit.

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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by pjmlp on Saturday April 03, 2021 @04:20AM (#26679223)
With Linux to hold a gun, you have first to assemble it.
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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by freebuju on Saturday April 03, 2021 @06:31AM (#26679841)
> I don't normally use Google, but just for you, I checked on it: It even has an easy-answers page.

It was at this point that this troll immediately turned tasteless like chewed up sugarcane.

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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by caslon on Saturday April 03, 2021 @07:06AM (#26680021)
DuckDuckGo is perfectly sufficient, but the above poster uses Google. So I used Google to demonstrate.
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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by freebuju on Saturday April 03, 2021 @08:33AM (#26680545)
Oh my bad. I mistakenly thought use of LMGTFY to be a narcissistic troll. Missed the part where searching google is part of the experiment.
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