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Comment by Mikeb85 | Hacker News Reader

From everything I've read, ThinkPads (IBM/Red Hat devs seem to use them), Acers (have pretty standard parts, nothing funky), Dells and HPs (both have Linux dev laptops) all seem to run pretty well.

The worst seem to be gaming laptops, non-Lenovo Chinese brands, Asus, etc...

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Corroborating this on the asus, I got one back in 2020 when my laptop gave up the ghost. Tried trudging through but I couldn't get comfortable with opensuse, things like on boot the mouse not responding, spontaneously rebooting when I tried to change volume, wifi card being throttled or just useless. All of it failing just enough I never quite trusted it.

Less than the brand, I think it is the line and components manufacturers that counts more.

Like pro lines are what most linux devs receive from their employer and better supported than familial and gaming lines. Also intel integrated everywhere is better supported than a mix'n'match of chipset foo, network bar, gfx baz.

I have an HP gaming laptop. Zero issues running ubuntu. Detects my SD card reader and everything.

Thinkpad T400 G2: the fan keeps running in full speed randomly.

I mean, that's getting near the age where it's a miracle it even turns on any more...

I had the original T400; the issue was Intel Turbo Boost.

At the time, the workaround was to disable Turbo Boost, but as far as I remember, it was fixed eventually and the workaround was not needed anymore.

Recent Asus zenbooks seem to have a decent reputation.

Not in term of reliability from what I understood.

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