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by EndShell 466 days ago
Contrary to popular belief the Dell and Thinkpads are really reliable as long as you buy their business laptops. The consumer laptops are often not great, but the business ones are rock solid, easy to repair and built like bricks.

You can also repair them yourself, so most people just wait until business update their inventory and you can get a cheap Dell/Thinkpad from ebay for a few hundred. I have a T480s, 24GB of Ram and a 8th Gen i7 processor that I picked up for £300. Granted the laptop is old now, but it runs all my dev software well.
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markus_zhang 466 days ago
I'm really inclined to install Ubuntu or something else for my "new" used Dell 32GB laptop.

The only issue is that I also installed it on my 16GB ThinkPad and the desktop experience has a lot of rough edges.

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EndShell 466 days ago
Generally most of the Linux's have rough edges on the desktop experience. I am using Debian 13 (Current Testing) and while it is pretty decent these days there are lots of annoyances. I still dual boot for gaming and at work I use Windows.
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markus_zhang 466 days ago
Thanks. It's Youtube keep crashing on Ubuntu 22.04 every 10 minutes and I don't know why. I turned off hardware acceleration and did a few other tweaks, but judging the look of reddit posts I found, there is no solution. That's why I also keep a Windows laptop.
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EndShell 466 days ago
I don’t use Ubuntu personally, but there should be a newer LTS out.

If you are using a nvidia card it might be worth checking if you are using Wayland or X11, Nvidia and X11 typically work better.

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