On Wed, 19 May 2021 09:41:39 +0200 <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 10:09:12AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Ma, 18 mai 21, 22:49:31, George Shuklin wrote: > > > I'm trying to choose between Purism and System76, and, as far as I > > > understand they both supports linux very well, but.. > > > > > > Which one is better? Or, may me I missed and there are other coreboot (no > > > ME) vendors with high-grade Linux support? > > > > > > I have a negative experience with XPS13 DE (which is shipped with Ubuntu, > > > but even with all tweaks and random sleeps they added to vanilla Ubuntu, > > > is > > > far from perfect in Linux support)... > > > > Thinkpads are generally very good quality (even if expensive) and have > > traditionally been rather well supported by Linux. > > That's what I do whenever the "nice" alternatives mentioned above are > out of my reach (as is currently the case): refurbished Thinkpads. > They are robust enough to support a second life, and installation is > pretty smooth most of the time.
+1 My main machine for the past five years has been a W550s, purchased refurbished from eBay. I've replaced some of the RAM (one of the DIMMS was / went bad) and the keyboard (a bunch of keys failed), and I have purchased a replacement SSD (the current one is out of space) that I'm going to install when I get a chance, but on the whole, the machine is still going fairly strong (although the processor is anemic and I really could use 16GB of ram rather than the current 4+4). Would I have had the bad RAM on a new machine? Would I at least have caught it while still under warranty? Would the keyboard have failed? Who knows ... My previous main machine had been a T60. I gave that up when its keyboard failed. I know that one of the main selling points of ThinkPads is their keyboards: they are certainly very good, but apparently they don't last forever ;) Celejar
