I’ve been running Linux for 14 months now and loving it.

My laptop is a HP Victus gaming pc, which is bulky and heavy, but Its powerfull.

I find myself laying on the couch more and developing from there half the time or doing laptop stuff more and more from the couch.

Lugging it to work and back is also not great.

In October I can buy a new laptop through work and write off half the price against tax, honestly I want everything a mac book offers.

Good solid build quality, not plastic. No GPU needed, just light weight, long battery life, shouldn’t heat up too much, good trackpad etc.

But fuck apple and their walled garden, so I want something Linux.

ARM is perfect for this, but does Linux play nice with it? What are my options?

Or do I just go with x86 and compromise

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 day ago

      same w mine on the 3rd day i received it; i updated using cli and it no longer booted.

      • pr06lefs@lemmy.ml
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        1 day ago

        it does nothing. might as well not be plugged in. at this point I don’t remember what killed it. maybe trying to transition to another os.

        • just some guy@sh.itjust.works
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          18 hours ago

          I get that, one of my pis is in that boat. I’ve been putting off making a boot disk for the distro and chrooting in to reinstall the system.

          on the bright side, barring physical damage or an spi issue, you should be able to get it booting again. If it might’ve been an install issue, you could force SD boot, reinitialize the emmc, and reinstall. Those things were really good about not being able to fully brick easily.