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mpblack

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  • Refurbished Lenovos in general (and LinuxPusher.dk, in particular)

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  • Excellent point - guess I was just applying proprietary thinking to what Tuxedo offers, but of course it's a different kettle of fish.

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  • Aspire 15

    Looks nice - and nice price too!

  • Refurbished Lenovos in general (and LinuxPusher.dk, in particular)

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  • Libreboot looks very, very interesting - thanks for the tip!

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  • Thanks for the tip - I'll check out the AMD Acer laptops. You thinking of Nitros, in particular?

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  • Looks like a nice selection. A sensible approach, and one I may end up taking: getting a Windows laptop for good value and then installing Linux myself.

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  • Good points all round, thanks - and I did think the Linux installation cost seemed high. I might be willing to pay a premium for good support. I've heard good things about System76's customer service (but they're US-based). Installing a distro on an old laptop doesn't scare me - I've done it before. It's more the hardware/driver issues that might arise. And then I'd love to discover an "out of the box" solution that I could recommend to my friends and family, who have little appetite for tech tinkering. Maybe that's where Tuxedo comes into the picture...

  • Refurbished Lenovos in general (and LinuxPusher.dk, in particular)

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  • Can't seem to find refurbs on their website - and judging from the original announcement, they may only be available in the US and Canada (I'm in the EU).

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  • That's helpful, thanks. I'm guessing they charge a premium because they provide a service. I'm not afraid to tinker a bit, but my interest in Linux is not tinkering - it's to switch to a freer, more sustainable OS. So I'm curious about services that offer support.

    For that reason I've also looked at Tuxedo computers, but I'm worried that I'm locking myself into another company's OS again (from Microsoft/Apple to Tuxedo) rather than having the freedom to choose my own distro. But I guess with support comes a price: less freedom.

    Right now I'm deeply locked into the Apple ecosystem. Apple makes wonderful hardware and apps, but it's still a straitjacket, even if it's a designer straitjacket. 😀

  • What helps people get comfortable on the command line?

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  • These do look nice 🤩 Thanks!

  • What helps people get comfortable on the command line?

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  • How do you get a terminal app that’s cool and user-friendly? Any recommendations?

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  • Cities without cars sound wonderful. My personal utopia. 🤩

    I'm not an urban planner, and know little about such things. But I imagine 20th century city planning plays a part in today's tensions between status quo car-centered policies and pro-pedestrian policies. I mean, I look at how cars dominate cities like Brussels, cutting though the medieval foundations of the city, or how much of Copenhagen was turned into parking lots in the 20th century (now, thankfully, the trend is being reversed). Drivers depend on getting from A to B in the city by using their cars; pedestrians (really, everyone) suffer the resulting air and noise pollution, not to mention the sheer amount of space dedicated to blacktop and parking.

    I'd prefer a city exclusively dedicated to pedestrians and bicyclists. But seeing this from the car owner's perspective, I can appreciate that, for some, there are no viable alternatives. Public transport might take 2 hours vs 30 minutes driving. Then what do you do? In some cases, I'm guessing we'd need A LOT more investment in public transport, bike-lane super highways, etc. before it would be politically viable to completely eliminate cars, and even then, it would have to be gradual. After all, old habits die hard.