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Re:Linux Developer Laptops: Dell's Precision 5500 series rei... by flakiness on Friday March 11, 2022 @03:12PM (#30645410)
If you're OK with MacOS, you don't need Linux laptop. Linux laptop users (like me) have reasons to go into this constrained space :-(

That's said, I roughly agree with you. I have 5530. It's throttled quickly. The battery goes out in a few hours, and yeah, the fan noise.

I'm thinking about giving up Linux and switching to Windows/WSL. It's a bit too much to live with Linux over this mediocre laptop. I guess Dell laptops will work fine with Windows.

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Re:Linux Developer Laptops: Dell's Precision 5500 series rei... by k0staa on Saturday March 12, 2022 @02:36AM (#30649710)
I tried that and after few months I'm going back to Linux or I'm bying mac. I'm using Win 11 with WSL. Sometimes WSL can't start and I need to restart. Sometimes it start taking too much of procesor and memmory and I need to restart... One day it will be probably alright but not yet unfortunatly.
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