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Best Linux laptop for 2023 (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’m in the market for a new Linux laptop. My current machine is a 2018 i7 with 64GB of RAM, a 4K screen, 1TB of storage, 2x USB-C and 1x USB-A.

I’m looking for something that can match my current specs but brings great battery life, modern Wi-Fi, and a fingerprint reader. I don’t have to have 4K, and may actually prefer lower resolution for the battery savings.

I’d love to hear some recommendations for a machine built within the past 12 months. Thanks in advance for your feedback!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What are you doing that makes having 64gb ram useful?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They already answered this:

I’m in DevSecOps, and do a lot of heavy development and testing, as well as PoCs. Ideally, I’d have 128GB of RAM but laptops aren’t quite there yet. The HD is a Samsung SSD.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't see your comment about heavy dev and testing.

I'm curious about what exactly is chewing up that much RAM. Do you have a ridiculous amount of containers running? Or a big ram disk or something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's not my comment. You are talking to the completely wrong person. Go look at their comments.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I develop software and do a lot of PoC with VMs and containers.