[Teichopsia]

I recently came across the Acer 5, that runs AMD ryzen 3 with 4GB ram at 315$ on amazon. I did a bit of research (and that's my only experience with it) and if budget is a factor, from what I saw you can't beat this one. If you can buy more RAM do it. Make sure to use both slots to activate the dual channel, as it will perfor better.

I managed to find a post from someone that has installed Linux on it, with no issues. And another that did have issues, but that's probably someone who was quite noobish to Linux.

https://www.amazon.com/Acer-Display-Graphics-Keyboard-A515-4...

[wayneftw]

I love the Acer Aspire E5 series. I have the E5-575g with an i5 and 16gb ram (they go up to 32gb). Here’s the 576g with 8gb and a newer CPU than I have, for $599...

https://www.amazon.com/Acer-Aspire-i5-8250U-GeForce-E5-576G-...

It’s got a 1080p screen, dual video out (hdmi + vga), gigabit ethernet, usb-c, Bluetooth and the battery easily lasts over 10 hours with Manjaro Linux. Everything works under Linux and the ram, ssd and wifi are user serviceable.