[lug] Linux laptop

[Davide Del Vento]

 (responding to John) I do know that it has a second bay for a second HD. I
also used to do that a decade+ ago, but in recent years the "old models" of
last year or two are either impossible to find in the marketplace, or as
expensive or MORE expensive than this year's model.

(Stephen) I don't know for sure, but my guess is that it does. If it didn't
they would be shouting that loud, I suppose. In my (limited, hw-wise)
experience, in any computer that I installed the OS, there is always a
piece of hw or two that it does not work if it hasn't its own proprietary
driver. FWIW, I used to do as you do, but now I gave up.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 5:56 AM Stephen Queen <svqueen at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm a free software kind of guy. When I say free I mean as in liberty not
> as in beer. At one time in the early 2000's I bought a System76 desktop
> thinking because it came with a Linux distribution on it, that it had all
> free software. The distribution it came with was Ubuntu. It turned out at
> that time that Ubuntu used proprietary drivers. When I tried to install
> other distributions on this machine it failed because they did not use
> proprietary drivers. I also struggled with compiling my own kernel.
> Remember when we all use to do that. I can't remember if I solved those
> issues or not. I could not determine with a quick look if kfocus uses
> proprietary drivers or not. Does anyone know off hand?
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 8:06 PM David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu>
> wrote:
>
>> I have a System76 Oryx Pro 2 that buries every other machine I have. Fast
>> and reliable.
>>
>> But, I lust after the KFocus. If I can just get my boss to buy it... I
>> mean, I need it for work. This old computer of mine just doesn't cut it
>> anymore. ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: John Karns <johnkarns at gmail.com>
>> Date: 4/28/20 7:26 PM (GMT-07:00)
>> To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List" <
>> lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
>> Subject: Re: [lug] Linux laptop
>>
>> A bit off point, perhaps - Call me old fashioned, but anyone else
>> prefer something older like one of the higher end (for its time)
>> legacy Dells? Probably isn't quite as fast as these models, but is
>> fine for casual use, and at least it has a swappable DVD / 2nd HDD
>> bay, is dockable, shielded with a metal plate bottom, and has ports
>> for legacy peripherals! And fitting these dinosaurs with a SDD goes a
>> good way toward shortening the performance gap, IMO. Close enough for
>> me, anyway!
>>
>> It is nice to see that Linux laptops are still showing up in the
>> marketplace, though!
>>
>> ==
>> John
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:42 AM Davide Del Vento
>> <davide.del.vento at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I've just learned about https://kfocus.org/ which is really
>> interesting if you want/need a high end Linux laptop.
>> > Perhaps most of you already knew it, but since I didn't and hadn't seen
>> it here, I'm rectifying the latter.
>> >
>> > Happy Monday!
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