Ask HN: Birthday present for a soon to graduate CS student?

Re:Ask HN: Birthday present for a soon to graduate CS student? by dkatz23238 on Friday December 30, 2022 @03:11PM (#34189453)

Get him another laptop, preferably Dell (just because I have great experience with them) so he can install Ubuntu on it and have a linux dev machine. This way he can develop software for linux servers (such as a web app or data science tool) without resorting to Linux subsystem for linux and all the related shenanigans.

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Re:Ask HN: Birthday present for a soon to graduate CS student? by akerl_ on Friday December 30, 2022 @03:25PM (#34189639)

Buying a tech person a laptop that they didn't specifically ask for feels like it's in the same category as buying a pan or knife for a chef.

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Re:Ask HN: Birthday present for a soon to graduate CS student? by notemaker on Friday December 30, 2022 @03:14PM (#34189496)

Just make sure it doesn't have an Nvidia GPU. Always a gamble with on laptops

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