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Linux compatible computers

Laptops

Dell

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Dell

No longer sold

Price: $900 to $1400

Storage capacity: up to 1 terabyte solid state drive ($300 to price)

RAM: 8 Gigabytes

SWAP: 2 Gigabytes

Screen resolution: 1920x1200

Touchscreen: false

Availability: USA, Europe (?) Other/unknown

Keyboard type: US basic Latin ISO (QWERTY)

Refresh rate: 60 hz

Ports: 2 charging ports, 1 SD card reader, 1 dongle port, no USB ports

Battery model: Dell WN0N00B

Battery life: 1.5-20 hours (depending on usage)

Default desktop environment: GNOME 3.36.1

Linux Kernel version: 5.6.0

GPU: No NVidia GPU (a big plus when getting a computer is to have no NVidia hardware due to its severe compatibility problems, both for Linux and Windows) unknown GPU

Processor: Intel Core i5 10th generation (laptop 1) Intel core i5 Evo (laptop 2)

Operating system: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS or Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (excluding Windows 10, as it is not related t this project.

Product unavailable

Notes (from personal usage):

The first laptop was completely fine, although I wore the keyboard out in less than 10 months.

Some Linux utilities were broken by default, such as changing system sounds, and favoriting files/folders

The second laptop and the first laptop had excessive battery drainage issues

The second laptop had many graphical issues, and crashed very frequently. Installing Samba might have made this worse.

The second laptop incorrectly reported how much CPU a process was using, and the laptop always used 10-40% CPU at all times, resulting in quicker battery drainage

Still being sold

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Dell

No longer sold
XPS 13 9300

Price: $900 to $1400

Storage capacity: up to 1 terabyte solid state drive ($300 to price)

RAM: 8 Gigabytes

SWAP: 2 Gigabytes

Screen resolution: 1920x1200

Touchscreen: false

Availability: USA, Europe (?) Other/unknown

Keyboard type: US basic Latin ISO (QWERTY)

Refresh rate: 60 hz

Ports: 2 charging ports, 1 SD card reader, 1 dongle port, no USB ports

Battery model: Dell WN0N00B

Battery life: 1.5-20 hours (depending on usage)

Default desktop environment: GNOME 3.36.1

Linux Kernel version: 5.6.0

GPU: No NVidia GPU (a big plus when getting a computer is to have no NVidia hardware due to its severe compatibility problems, both for Linux and Windows) unknown GPU

Processor: Intel Core i5 10th generation (laptop 1) Intel core i5 Evo (laptop 2)

Operating system: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS or Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (excluding Windows 10, as it is not related t this project.

Product unavailable

Notes (from personal usage):

The first laptop was completely fine, although I wore the keyboard out in less than 10 months.

Some Linux utilities were broken by default, such as changing system sounds, and favoriting files/folders

The second laptop and the first laptop had excessive battery drainage issues

The second laptop had many graphical issues, and crashed very frequently. Installing Samba might have made this worse.

The second laptop incorrectly reported how much CPU a process was using, and the laptop always used 10-40% CPU at all times, resulting in quicker battery drainage

Still being sold

ChromeOS

No longer sold
Still being sold

IBM

Lenovo

Acer

Microsoft

Apple

Desktop Computers

Dell

Ubuntu 20.04

No longer sold

Still being sold

ChromeOS

No longer sold
Still being sold

IBM

Lenovo

Acer

Microsoft

Apple

Desktop computers

Dell

IBM

Lenovo

Acer

Microsoft

Apple

This article is highly incomplete. You can help by citing Linux computers you have worked with and note the specs and a little bit of your experience with it (both good and bad)


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