I’ve been running Linux for 14 months now and loving it.
My laptop is a HP Victus gaming pc, which is bulky and heavy, but Its powerfull.
I find myself laying on the couch more and developing from there half the time or doing laptop stuff more and more from the couch.
Lugging it to work and back is also not great.
In October I can buy a new laptop through work and write off half the price against tax, honestly I want everything a mac book offers.
Good solid build quality, not plastic. No GPU needed, just light weight, long battery life, shouldn’t heat up too much, good trackpad etc.
But fuck apple and their walled garden, so I want something Linux.
ARM is perfect for this, but does Linux play nice with it? What are my options?
Or do I just go with x86 and compromise
I run a Pi400 every now and then… It’s not setting any speed records, and starts to lag out after 10 tabs, but it runs all day on an external phone battery. There’s the odd app that nobody bothered porting to ARM, but I have more trouble with Arm Windows than Arm Linux.
I had a pinebook 1080p, same exact experience. Fine, not fantastic, good battery life. It keeled over and died after a year though.