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   swagg boi :verified: :mastoiddong_gold: (swaggboi@fedi.seriousbusiness.international)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 04:39:22 JST swagg boi :verified: :mastoiddong_gold:

   Linux posters need to accept the fact that unless you sell laptops preloaded with Linux, no one will give a shit.

   And I mean ‘laptops’ as in the ones in Best Buy/Walmart and shit, not some EU website that sells recycled Thinkpad X220 with Arch installed

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     gray (gray@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 04:39:16 JST gray

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     @swaggboi Its not too bad. I have Fedora 42 on it and it runs perfectly. I upgraded the RAM to 32GB (dual RAM slots is nice) and SSD to a 1TB one.
     
     The build quality feels more like a Dell Latitude than a Thinkpad IMO.
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     swagg boi :verified: :mastoiddong_gold: (swaggboi@fedi.seriousbusiness.international)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 04:39:17 JST swagg boi :verified: :mastoiddong_gold:

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     @gray Also how’s the L14? I had I think an L13 (p sure it was a 13” not a 14”) years ago but I couldn’t get my DE to work with the hi-DPI screen it had so I gave it to someone I’m not even friends with anymore… I should’ve repossessed that thing damnit

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     gray (gray@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 04:39:18 JST gray

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     @swaggboi i don't think it was offered when I got my L14 last year. It would have been nice to save $140.
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     swagg boi :verified: :mastoiddong_gold: (swaggboi@fedi.seriousbusiness.international)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 04:39:18 JST swagg boi :verified: :mastoiddong_gold:

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     @gray Dude I paid for so many Windows licenses I’ve never used throughout my life… I fucking hate proprietary software so much lol

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     swagg boi :verified: :mastoiddong_gold: (swaggboi@fedi.seriousbusiness.international)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 04:39:19 JST swagg boi :verified: :mastoiddong_gold:

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     @gray It’s a Microsoft psyop

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     swagg boi :verified: :mastoiddong_gold: (swaggboi@fedi.seriousbusiness.international)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 04:39:20 JST swagg boi :verified: :mastoiddong_gold:

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     @gray lol it’s wild the description still says Windows 11 Home… At least it exists ig

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     gray (gray@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 04:39:20 JST gray

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     @swaggboi yeah that threw me off to then i went to the "build a pc".
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     swagg boi :verified: :mastoiddong_gold: (swaggboi@fedi.seriousbusiness.international)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 04:39:21 JST swagg boi :verified: :mastoiddong_gold:

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     @gray The XPS with Ubuntu is decent, last I checked it was fairly obvious to get on their website. I doubt they’ll be in any brick and mortar but it’s some progress?

     Then I read that there were preloaded Thinkpads with some distro (can’t remember but I feel like it was Fedora?) and I absolutely could not find them on Lenovo’s site.

     HP lets you buy a laptop with a FreeDOS disk which is not at all what I mean but I thought it was a funny loophole to get out of the Windows license lol.

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     gray (gray@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 04:39:21 JST gray

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     @swaggboi Lenovo is BTO only I think. Looks like Ubuntu as well. https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/results/?visibleDatas=699%3ALinux
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     gray (gray@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 04:39:22 JST gray

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     @swaggboi Dell still sells laptops with Ubuntu on them but you really have to search for them.
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 04:40:13 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @swaggboi i mean, yeah. that's why you can't assume linux will work fine on a laptop when you install it (not a single laptop works the same way driver/hw wise compared to windows)