I am in the market for a laptop, so I thought I’d ask here for suggestions here.

For context, I am a selling my gaming PC for a laptop as I have largely stopped gaming as I’ve gotten older and am moving around quite a lot in my day-to-day, so having to SSH into my daily driver all the time can get annoying. If I were to have my DREAM laptop, I would like a LOT of disk space as I store a lot of projects locally and plan to dual-booth Windows and Arch Linux (though, I will only use Linux 99% of the time). Additionally, I would like at least one or two USB-A ports, and HDMI out would be very helpful as I am not selling my monitors, but it is not even remotely a requirement as I have my adapters. I would prefer it not be RGB (granted, I can always just not use it), but backlights are quite nice. I need not a dedicated graphics card but I would like good specs otherwise (my budget isn’t a huge concern). I currently use a 65% keyboard and that is my absolute favorite layout. A laptop that uses a 65% keyboard would be a god-send, but my more technical preferences are more important. Lastly, I would like to support a company that encourages/contributes towards Linux/open-source. If they have RGB or other control software that has native Linux support, that would be nice. But I plan to dual-boot so that’s not a huge issue.

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    1 year ago

    This man laptops! Thanks, lol. I was wondering how long it would take to get recommended a ThinkPad considering I mentioned im a Linux user. I’ve never owned one but I’ll definitely look into it. Also, the information about the display is actually very helpful