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    I'm on the market to buy a new laptop, and Lemmy has successfully coaxed and goaded me to give Linux a serious try.

    I've never used *nix as my personal OS.

    Which hardware/laptop do you recommend? And which OS to pair it with for a Linux newbie?

    I'm a software engineer, and quit my job to pursue an MSc in AI. So my uses will be:

    • programming
    • study
    • browsing lemmy
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    [–] alice_mac@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    The MacBook's are damn good though, so it's not the end of the world for you.

    Plus with Asahi they are pretty close to being a decent Linux machine too.

    [–] Dehydrated@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    The M3 Pro doesn't support Asahi yet :(

    But I'm glad they got the HDMI output to work. I'm so excited for the release, I'm gonna install it as soon as it drops. I don't necessarily need Thunderbolt, I just want some kind of video output. USB C display don't work at this time. I also love their solution for audio: the speaker safety daemon as well as the audio preprocessor.

    I'm so excited, Asahi will be great, especially soon with KDE Plasma 6.

    [–] alice_mac@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

    Those GitHub links are pretty cool actually.