Mastodawn

#Ubuntu #laptop #advice
The screen on my laptop is dying and I probably need to replace it. Any recommendations for a cheap laptop that will play nicely with Ubuntu? I'm not gaming or anything exciting, and my laptop rarely leaves home so weight isn't a factor. I'm after decent storage and a laptop that will last.

I used to dual boot, but don't know whether that's still easy to set up what with all the device enshittification...

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Tortipede

@Knittingdancer I've got a Dell (big beast of an ex-business laptop, bought to do everything the desktop used to) running dual-boot Lubuntu & Windows 10. I can't recommend the specific model, because it's possibly not upgradeable to Windows 11, but Dell as a manufacturer do cater to/support Linux to a certain extent. Everything works - mostly better in Lubuntu than in Windows - but I did have a moment where Linux saw the shared data partition as corrupt, and I had to ask Windows to fix it.