Re: Subnotebook?

On 2025-02-11, Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

A strategy is to buy a laptop that is available with pre-installed Linux
(either directly or the Windows version of the same), because you know there
at least extant drivers for all the hardware.

Exactly.

I've been around this block a few times. I have an ASUS laptop in my
backpack that I installed Ubuntu on a couple of years ago, but I want
something more portable, something I can slap in a shoulder bag and set up
on an airplane tray table. (The ASUS is too big to be stable on a tray
table.) Like someone else said in this thread, I don't feel like spending
hours struggling because the sound chip (or functionality on a new mobile
chipset) isn't supported out of the box) if I don't have to.

Thanks, all.
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