Best Laptop for Linux

[Marcus Brubaker]

Muhammad Imran wrote:

> Hi guys,
> I am buying a Laptop for Linux. If anybody bought a laptop recently 
> that works fine with Linux (without lot of trouble), please let me 
> know which one.
> I am thinking to buy Dell Inspiron 6000 or Sony VAIO FS645PH. has 
> anybody tried linux on these?
>  

I'm currently running Fedora on a Dell Inspiron 8600.  Now, for all the 
complaints I've heard about getting Linux to work on Dells, this one was 
relatively painless.  Had to tweak my xorg.conf to take advantage of the 
wider screen and install some binary drivers to get video and wireless 
working well but other than that, it's been fine.

Someone else suggested looking to ensure that the individual components 
are support and I think that's a good idea.   Most NVIDIA graphics chips 
will work well with their drivers and if you get an intel wireless card 
the ipw2[12]00 drivers are fairly good now.  Those were my requirements 
when I looked for my laptop: NVIDIA graphics and Intel wireless and I'm 
happy with my purchase.

Regards,
Marcus
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