What laptop do you use for your Linux work machine? My Lenovo is dying after just 6 months.

I'm using an HP laptop right now, switched from an old Dell desktop. Took me a couple minutes to figure out that secure boot was enabled by default, and that's why my Linux distro wouldn't boot. Don't waste as much time as I did. Overall it works great.

I have a Lenovo and is starting to break apart after 7 years 😆

lenovo ^^ it's really old (which is why i put linux on it, it couldn't handle bloated windows anymore)

Thinkpad P1 gen4

and a Dell XPS13 since 2016 [beefiest setup] - works perfectly well

Tuxedo Aura 15 Gen 1: https://tuxedocomputers.com/de/... Nice machine, though not intended for gaming. AMD 4700U eight cores with iGPU, 32GB RAM, 2TB SSD, FHD display.

Since I use Linux Mint instead of the manufacturer's default Linux (yes, it ships with Linux), I had to hack around with the driver for the RGB keyboard, but that wasn't too difficult.

Samsung Galxy Book Pro 360. Using it to take notes in classes with xournal++ and the S-Pen. Only thing that bothers me is that my fingerprint Scanner never gets used because there is no Linux driver :(

Currently using slimbook.
Absolutly can't recommend.
fans are very loud and not controllable by the user, firmware updates are only possible from windows, the website is a mix of spanish and english, i have to enable some tweaks of the kernel manually to fix the touchpad.

For a work machine i wouldn't use a laptop. The form factor makes it harder to cool CPU and GPU and the lowpower variants aren't as beefy as the standard versions. Also you can't really cherrypick components for a laptop as you can for a PC (no, Framework doesn't count - yet).

@Oktokolo not really an option, since I do hybrid remote. And I have no intention of having 2 desktops.

@ars1 I used two desktops with one SSD for a while. Just carried the SSD to work and plugged it into the PC there when working in the office. The SSD didn't object to sharing a pocket with the PDA and the PCs didn't care either.

A decade ago you absolutely couldn't do that with Windows though. It should be fine with it on a technical level by now (plugnplay became really good), but if you use Windows, testing the move from PC A to B to A and back to B should tell you, whether the DRMs of Windows and the software you use are fine with the hardware changes.

I use Gentoo btw.

@ars1
I wouldn't look back from Dell on.
Grat haptics, layouts, compatability and boot / processing performance.

Acer, Lenovo bad experiences.
HP, been told and watched the show but it starts with managerial shortcuts and layouts of the keyboard. Which is never a good sign.