I just bought this yesterday for my 16 year old son. He is in year 11, doing subjects heavy in maths and science. His old laptop was 8 years old and falling. I had a budget of $1200, reluctantly, as I knew that DDR prices and storage prices had gone through the roof recently. Typically, I have spent $700-800 on laptops for my kids.
I walked into a local retailer and this was presented as a laptop that had been ordered and not collected or paid for. Price was $1,999 firm.
After some negotiation, I walked out with it for $1,500. Way more than I was comfortable spending but it seems to be a good deal, unless I am missing something?
We are on Lemmy.
I am obligated to not only ask that you switch to Linux (please do), but I also must suggest a distribution (Mint).
I don’t make the rules.
He has to have windoze for school. No choice. My computer runs mint, my wife’s runs Ubuntu, and my other son runs Arch.
Winblows.
Winslop
Loosedoesnt
Dual boot maybe and have it be the Tiny 11 version of Windows instead?
My partner had to still use Windows at the time when I got her a gaming laptop about 2 years ago and it ran so much better under tiny 11 then standard stock Windows. Also fixed a wifi issue some of the bloat ware was causing.
As a graduation gift you can wipe it and set him up with linux. It’s like the burning of old homework, but the burning of the bits
I use Arch btw, so it’s my job to say you should totally use Arch.
the hardest part of using Arch is the obligation to tell anyone that you use Arch. if you forget it won’t boot anymore.
I use Nyarch, because I’m an arch user of exquisite taste, so it’s my job to say you should totally use Nyarch while I tip my fedora
Tips my fedora as a sign of respect, whilst secretly studying the blade.
I haven’t used raw Arch, but I have been using Garuda for a while. I’d recommend this or CachyOS rather than pure Arch for someone not used to Linux, and especially a child.
I second both of Adulated_Aspersion’s suggestions.
Praise be to our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds!
OpenSUSE here. I dont recommend or condemn any actions unless you are comfortable and happy to do so.
YAST QUEEN.
Yes, though I would endorse Fedora or an atomic variant e.g. Aurora or Bazzite
I think you mean Manjaro
They guys who keep getting their domain cert expire over and over… and over… and over?
🤔 works for me
It’s not the functionality I’d be worried about.
I heard CachyOS is the new hotness now. Mine is still running Mint though, because I like it and it just works.
I’ve been using Manjaro for a couple years, and of course didn’t see any of the hate for it when trying to pick a distro, or for the first like 6 months of using it. But tbh the only part of my manjaro experience that isn’t fine is that they disable hardware acceleration for h.264 and h.265, with no easy way to enable it. Which is very annoying since I run a Jellyfin server on my desktop. But overall it’s been trouble-free for me.
But along with the seemingly constant power struggles over there, makes it hard to recommend. I hear endeavor OS is the new “easy” arch