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The Best Laptop of 2026 was Made in 2016
(lemmy.ml)
I’m sitting here in 2026 runnin Fedora 43 on a laptop from 2016, and honestly? It’s smoother than it has any right to be. My entire workflow lives in Brave and Obsidian, and this "old" i5 handles it like a champ. There is something deeply satisfying about taking a "boring" enterprise machine, slapping GNOME on it, and watching it run circles around modern hardware,It’s actually fuckin depressing that a 10-year-old laptop has better utility than 99% of the "pro" hardware being sold today.have a native Ethernet port and a full SD slot. Imagine that shit No $60 Amazon adapters dangling off the side like life support just to get a stable connection 🙄that's what I call good hardware built to last.#r/Linuxmasterrace
Hell yeah! I'm typing this on a 2013 i7 Macbook air running LMDE 13 and it runs like a dream.
I’ve got one of those. So nice to this day. That touchpad 🥰
Wait you can run Linux on a macbook? 🤔
Yes on the intel MacBooks :) I put cachyOS on mine and even though it used to be an overheating laptop the fans don't even start. Processor stays at around 40-50C.
For those wondering about newer Silicon Macs, there's Asahi Linux.
I wish I still had my top spec 2015 MacBook Pro, because I'd love to see how well Debian runs on it.