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  • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldMtoLinux@lemmy.world•Intel or AMD CPUs for new Laptops?English
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    8 months ago

    I wouldn’t be worried about buying AMD in terms of thermals, their laptop CPUs are fine. Usually, it’s the WiFi card that poses the biggest problem in terms of driver availability, in which case you can purchase an Intel WiFi card from Amazon for $15-$20. Battery and “optimizations” depend on your config and distro. Most plug-and-play distros should be fine OOTB, if you’re setting up Arch from scratch I assume you don’t have a problem in looking for drivers/compiling code.

    Edit: I personally do not suggest that anyone buys a new laptop unless they do not have a choice (horrible used market or the like). There is a heavy mark-up on new devices and the used market in the West (especially in the US) is excellent if you’re OK with fiddling with some parts of your laptop (or not - sometimes you don’t even need to do that). But being in c/linux that’s about granted, eh?

  • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldMtoLinux@lemmy.world•Does anyone else use the bookmarks bar as a to-do list?English
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    8 months ago

    Hello, from next time please try and include commentary on a feature/aspect/application on Linux that forms the basis for your post. I won’t delete/lock it but since this is a linux community, I would like to see posts a little more biased towards *nix instead of being perfectly agnostic.

    I tend to be fairly laid back in my management of communities but I’m sure we agree that we’d like to see posts mention *nix-specific paradigms if possible on a linux community page.

    Thanks

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