Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by redshirtrob on Saturday April 03, 2021 @10:31AM (#26681366)

Out of curiosity, what would qualify as an "official site" for laptops supported by Linux? Would it be run by Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, or some other maintainer? I think expecting anything official or authoritative from the Linux side is missing the boat.

What you're looking for is hardware vendors who support a Linux desktop environment on their laptops, which are not too difficult to find.

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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by fulafel on Saturday April 03, 2021 @11:05AM (#26681602)

The poster wasn't using Linux to refer to the Linux kernel here - they used it to mean "a Linux distribution". Distributions have their own hardware compatibility documentation systems. Eg Ubuntu has this: https://certification.ubuntu.com/ and Red Hat has https://catalog.redhat.com/hardware .

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Re:Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop by redshirtrob on Saturday April 03, 2021 @01:03PM (#26682672)

Hence my question. Per site guidelines I assumed the most generous interpretation of the poster's comment, which to me means they found those sites and do not consider them official. In that light, I was curious what they would consider official.

I prefer to take a hardware vendor's opinion as to whether that hardware is supported by Linux. They have some skin in the game, and have the resources to test the hardware, whereas many Linux distros will rely on user reports.

I imagine Ubuntu and Redhat have more resources to validate hardware and so those sites are likely more reliable, but once you get to niche distros YMMV on their compatibility matrices.

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