[sf-lug] Considering purchasing a lightweight laptop: thoughts Thinkpad X1 carbon vs. Thinkpad T460S

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

And if you do get a Skylake laptop for GNU/Linux, avoid discrete
graphics like the plague.

On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 10:02 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Quoting Jon Lam (jonplam at gmail.com):
>
>> I do not mean to hijack this discussion. Does anyone have any experience
>> running dual boot Windows and Linux on the Acer V Nitro?  I have a older
>> mid 2010 Mac Book Pro and am looking at a different configuration.
>
> I'll be very surprised if anyone on this mailing list satisfies that
> extremely specific request.
>
> If as I suspect nobody says "By a freakish coincidence, I happen to
> dual-boot that exact model.  What do you want to know?", perhaps you can
> follow up by saying what actual problem you're trying to solve.
>
> For example, you might be trying to ask "Would I have Linux driver
> problems on an Acer V Nitro?"  Part of your problem there is that Acer V
> Nitro isn't a specific model.  It's the marketing name for a series of
> laptop models, all of them pitched at gamers.
>
> All of those use Intel Skylake-architecture motherboard chipsets and
> Nvidia GTX960M graphics chips.  I personally wouldn't touch Skylake at
> this point.  Linux support requires a fairly cutting-edge kernels as
> Matthew Garrett described this past April:
> https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html
> As far as cutting-edge Nvidia graphics chips aimed at gamers, I'd
> personally avoid those, too, as they're open source-hostile.  (You would
> end up needing to retrofit Nvidia's  propritary drivers.)
>
> Why Acer V Nitro?  Gamer usage?
>
> Also, unless you have something about your use-case that is best
> addressed with dual boot, consider a VM solution instead, so you can
> use both OSes concurrently and needn't juggle a complicated bootloader
> setup.  In my experience, dual-boot is almost always a tactical error,
> most often chosen mainly because the user didn't consider alternatives.
>
>
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