Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?

Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by pizza234 on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @06:36AM (#31094939)

Dell XPS has a Linux-specific line, called "Developer edition", which is intended to be Linux-compatible (it can be indeed be configured with Ubuntu on purchase).

Their compatibility is not as good as they say (it needs a couple of tweaks, one of which is crucial, otherwise the machine eats batteries while on standby), but it's still decent. Definitely not "VERY bad".

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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by plainnoodles on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @10:18AM (#31097333)

I have an XPS 13 9310. What's this crucial tweak? I've been running it on a vanilla Arch install for about a year and haven't noticed much battery drain on standby (maybe a few % per day left sleeping?)

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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by pizza234 on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @01:29PM (#31100242)

The bug is this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1808957. Battery draining overnight - yikes!

It's possible that Arch ships with the workaround/fix by default.

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