[ShadowAce]

I know nothing about this website, and have no connection to it. Their recommendations for particular brands/parts are theirs alone and not mine. YMMV

[ShadowAce]

[Brian Griffin]

To avoid spending a thousand bucks I will give my Microsoft PC another chance, or dozens more.

At 2:34pm yesterday its clock stopped until 4:13pm. Running Edge and notepad locked its clock.

[Brian Griffin]

Maybe Musk should offer Microsoft $43 million for its PC operating system business.

[ClearCase_guy]

bfl

[Two Kids' Dad]

For later reading. Thanks.

[Pollard]

I've always found that Thinkpad laptops have good compatibility. Best if it's a workstation model that Lenovo leased by the many thousands to large businesses. Consumer Lenovos like the E series can be junk. Some business models aka Mobile Workstations were even available with Linux pre-installed.

I'm up to the W series(2008-2015) with a W530 running 2.7GHz 8x core i7 with 16 GiB of RAM and it just screams with Kubuntu 20.04, latest Long Term Support release. The upgrade path to something a little newer would be the P series(2015 to present), also a business series. P50 series, 50, 51, 52 etc is what I would choose.

X series is a good one too and is high performance but not business. Off lease business models can be found on ebay, with or without a HDD, with HDD wiped or wiped and then freshly installed with whatever version of Windows it came with. The original version of Windows with a legible COA sticker is preferred. No problems activating Windows that way. Then add Linux and do the dual boot setup.

Dell business models are another option and like the Thinkpad, some models did come with Linux pre-installed. With laptops being as powerful as they've become, I have no use for a tower taking up space.

Paid $325 for this W530 and see no reason to upgrade anytime soon. Ebay results for parts lists over 500 items. LCD/LED displays, OEM batteries and keyboards are available as new parts. Everything else is available used. Universal stuff like HDDs and RAM would be available as new of course.

[Dalberg-Acton]

Contrary to the article, nVidia graphics cards are well supported by Linux.
I have a GeForce RTX 2060 and it works fine on Linux Mint.

[TomGuy]

I have a 5 year old Toshiba Linux Mint laptop, i3 processor. It was sluggish to load Linux.

A few weeks ago I replaced the 1 Tb hard drive with a 500 Gb SSD.

I tried to copy from-to and never could get the start-up to recognize the new drive, so I did a fresh install from the Linux Mint 20.3 ISO.

Now, my boot-up is about 12 seconds. Previously, it seemed to take well over a minute. It is surprising how much faster an SSD boot drive is.

[martin_fierro]

I have a mid-2011 MacBook Pro that Apple has long since stopped supporting.

It’s so old that it doesn’t do Airdrop well, nor will it connect with more than one HomePod at a time.

I’ve used a back-door patch to upgrade the OS to Catalina, but even that isn’t perfect.

I’m *this close * to turning that MacBook into a Linux mint box. All indications are that critical functions are supported.

[Rebelbase]

Don’t forget to add a Turbo button.