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Linux Laptop for (student) programmer (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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As the title says, I am currently learning to be a programmer, and my tablet does not suffice for the job.

I have already finished a small MEAN-Stack application for learning Typescript, learned some Java syntax (I expect nothing more exciting than a sorting algorithm, but exam language is Java, so...) and the next stop will most likely be plain vanilla C to learn about handling hardware.

Windows I hate with a passion, and I don't know squat about Macs, so I am thinking of getting myself a decently sized laptop for a sensible Linux install.

History (I started my Liux journey with SuSE Linux 4.4.1, way back when) taught me to be very wary of driver issues on laptops, so I thought I could ask you for recommendations that play fair with Linux.

(as an aside, if I could play GuildWars2 on it in the evening and attach my two big monitors when at home, that would be super cool)

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[–] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

I disagree with your take on the framework. The inferior build quality alone is not a good enough reason to say they aren't worth it over an X1 Carbon or XPS. Neither of those offer easy repairability and the XPS has atroucious IO.

I use a Framework and have run it primarily using Plasma Wayland and Hyprland. Both of these have had fantastic HiDPI support. Both can scale Wayland and Xwayland apps seperately so that you do not have any fuzziness and both support Wayland's newest fractional scaling protocol.

If you're running a modern distro (one with good wayland support), you should have no problem with hidpi. The more recent comments in the thread you linked support this.

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