/tech/ - Technology

Search for developer friendly laptops, I think that's a good start.
As for distro, if you're a beginner I recommend Mint. If you know what you're doing or you want to work towards getting there, an Arch derivative like Endeavour or Cachy. Perhaps even Arch itself.

Linus is a retarded reactionary liberal. I don't mean the youtuber.

>best distro
Arch if you're schizophrenic. Fedora otherwise

>>31949
My laptop was never linux friendly, get a thinkpad. A 4gb ram dell one. Check out Arch, it's an easy beginner distro. Gentoo, NixOS, or Slackware if you are a schizo. Debian if you're getting into server management later. Arch is really convenient and the best user distro, avoid Ubuntu.

>current best distro?
The dulap image aka. gentoo linux circa 2017. In 2025 anything with a release schedule, a small base system that is easy to reason about and no hard dependencies on systemd.
>>31955
>retarded reactionary liberal
No, he's the type of erudite liberal bureaucract, who prevents the bourgeoisie from cannibalizing themselves.

>>31955
>arch

No. I tried arch once a few years back and if I remember correctly, their glibc was ancient and outdated iirc

>>31958
Youre not schizo enough

i decided arch is the best distro ever to exist after i updated an install that had not received a single update since 2022 and the only manual intervention required was demising the extra repo and moving the nvidia drivers to the upstream version. i dont care for schizo complaints about systemD.

You should buy a GNU Booted Thinkpad X200 or any other laptop compatible with GNU Boot, and replace the Wi-Fi card with an ath9k one. Any other laptop would contain nonfree blobs and should be avoided, otherwise you would be no different from a typical losedows user.

As for the GNU/Linux distribution, try to stick to a freedom-respecting one. I recommend Trisquel GNU/Linux-libre for beginners, but Gentoo GNU/Linux-libre with

ACCEPT_LICENSE="-* @FREE -Artistic"

is a solid choice too. Don't listen to other meme answers, you should always seek your freedom first above all.