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Laptop for coding?
| OP here, also must not be a MacBook
| ThinkPad X or T series are extremely comfy. Using a X220 myself.
| X1 carbon <3
| You can get great deals on warrantied dell 7000 series laptops all day on ebay
| Anything with a dual core i5, 8 Gb of RAM and an SSD will do. You can also get good deals on older hardware, like a Dell E7240 or E7440.
| I have XPS 13. Wonderful tiny and lightweight laptop with amazing linux support, as it also has a developer edition with linux pre-installed. A bit costly but worth it at least for me. Also amazing battery life.
| Get a refurbished t450s.
| You can use any laptop. Get HP X360 spectre
| I managed to get an upper grade Microsoft Surface Book 2 for free (I wouldn't have dropped actual money on it). Time to dual boot with Linux and compile and install a kernel that will let me use the touch screen and bullshit.
| >>139561
Libreboot doesn't but it seems that Coreboot does: https://www.coreboot.org/Board:lenovo/x220
| is there a website dedicated to listing linux friendly laptop?
| >>139958
https://h-node.org/
"The h-node project aims at the construction of a hardware database in order to identify what devices work with a fully free operating system."
Not sure if frequently updated or updated at all, though. At any rate, look at Lenovo and Dell. They traditionally have excellent *nix support.
| Any laptop is good enough, when you using arch linux + i3wm/i3gaps/anysimpletilingwm + vim + firefox
More than that, thia config is very enjoyable
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| Must be ultrabook or ultrabook-ish. Easy to install a Linux distro. Recommendations?