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
They’re locking down kernels now?
Bootloaders are locked. Think of the bios on a PC.
“They” probably are, I don’t know who “they” is but it’s definitely not Asus (at least not their upper-end stuff). Source: bought an Asus “gaming” laptop last year and installed Linux with no issues.
Edit: clarification on gaming laptop manufacturer (specified that it was Asus which I initially neglected to do in above comment)