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    From n952162@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 6 21:00:01 2022
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    I bought a bottom of the line HP laptop and had only problems with
    unsupported chips.  I'd like to buy a lenovo or huawei now. Has anyone
    had bad experiences porting /gentoo/ to either?

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  • From Wols Lists@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 6 22:10:01 2022
    On 06/04/2022 19:53, n952162 wrote:
    I bought a bottom of the line HP laptop and had only problems with unsupported chips.  I'd like to buy a lenovo or huawei now. Has anyone
    had bad experiences porting /gentoo/ to either?

    If you're prepared to pay decent money (there's no such thing as a
    "bottom of the line" here), try these people

    https://junocomputers.com/product-category/laptops/

    (I get the impression they're Italian with a UK base, certainly they've
    got a UK address, don't really know.)

    I bought the 14" for my wife (weight here was THE massive criterion).
    I've now bought the 15" for me although I've not set it up yet.

    All the computers come with Ubuntu. I blew it away, and installed SUSE
    as the host for installing gentoo (though I had problems with systemd networking so that got aborted) and Windows which is what my wife uses.
    Having got this system working with gentoo/systemd, I should have more
    success setting up my laptop.

    Cheers,
    Wol

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  • From Daniel Frey@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 7 22:20:02 2022
    On 2022-04-06 11:53, n952162 wrote:
    I bought a bottom of the line HP laptop and had only problems with unsupported chips.  I'd like to buy a lenovo or huawei now. Has anyone
    had bad experiences porting /gentoo/ to either?


    I bought a Lenovo P70 laptop back in 2018? and all hardware was
    supported by the kernel. This wasn't a cheap laptop though, it set me
    back about $2400.

    Dan

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  • From Bob Dunlop@21:1/5 to Wols Lists on Fri Apr 8 13:50:01 2022
    Hi,

    On Wed, Apr 06 at 09:05, Wols Lists wrote:
    On 06/04/2022 19:53, n952162 wrote:
    I bought a bottom of the line HP laptop and had only problems with unsupported chips.  I'd like to buy a lenovo or huawei now. Has anyone
    had bad experiences porting /gentoo/ to either?

    If you're prepared to pay decent money (there's no such thing as a
    "bottom of the line" here), try these people

    https://junocomputers.com/product-category/laptops/

    For UK buyers I'd recommend PC Specialist #1, I brought a 14" Lafite
    laptop from them in January 2019. What attracted me was a warantee that
    wasn't broken by opening the case or installing your own components.
    Also when I asked pre-sales support they where very open about the fact
    it was a rebadged Clevo N130BU, gave me the URL for the service manual
    and confirmed stock Ubuntu should run out the box. Linux Mint did
    when I tried it, not had an issue with it since.

    Now none of this is of much interest to the original poster who I think
    had a .de address apart for the idea of looking for a local supplier of rebadged Clevo devices. Lots of people do, I think at least some of
    Juno's stock is Clevo and know System76 used to albeit with modified
    firmware.


    #1 https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/

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    Bob Dunlop

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