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How is Linux on ARM? (For a Laptop) (piefed.social)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I've been running Linux for 14 months now and loving it.

My laptop is a HP Victus gaming pc, which is bulky and heavy, but Its powerfull.

I find myself laying on the couch more and developing from there half the time or doing laptop stuff more and more from the couch.

Lugging it to work and back is also not great.

In October I can buy a new laptop through work and write off half the price against tax, honestly I want everything a mac book offers.

Good solid build quality, not plastic. No GPU needed, just light weight, long battery life, shouldn't heat up too much, good trackpad etc.

But fuck apple and their walled garden, so I want something Linux.

ARM is perfect for this, but does Linux play nice with it? What are my options?

Or do I just go with x86 and compromise

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[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I use a MacBook M1 Air with Asahi Linux (using Fedora + Nix home-manager) for programming and web stuff and it works decently aside from a few missing features, although I hate the soldered storage and RAM. I might get a Framework or MNT laptop when it dies.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Grass is always greener. Have a framework and want to get an M1 or 2. Nothing wrong with framework just want to try arm.

[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What sort of battery life do you get, and what's the screen and touchpad like?

[–] WbrJr@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

My frame work 13 has to me the best keyboard. Its really nice and clicky and has a nice long travel. Compared to some Lenovos and other devices i tried I like mine the best.

The touchpad is ok. Its not a Mac touchpad but its ok I guess

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

In theory arm is better for battery, but in practice that's not always the case.

I read that the new Dell XPS has a longer battery life than its mac book counter parts