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[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

How soon until Asahi will run on it

Years. Asahi fully relies on reverse engineering by the community and those community members tend to get hired by the competition. Get a device where the platform designer supports Linux development upstream if your priority is Linux.

[-] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Could you give examples? My hope is to get a laptop at commodity mass produced prices, but where everything works flawlessly with Linux.

I've heard that old thinkpads are the way to go, but I don't really understand which models to look at specifically.

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Could you give examples?

AMD, Intel. To a lesser degree Qualcomm. (I wrote platform designer, not notebook manufacturer.)

I don’t really understand which models to look at specifically.

As long as it's without NVidia graphics and WiFi/Bluetooth not by Broadcom, it should be alright.

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