“I'm looking for a laptop to run linux on (single boot). Has anyone tried replacing windows with Debian or Ubuntu?”
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Yes, I am running Pop! OS (System 76's revision of Ubuntu). I wrote a blog post about it but can't link to it here. Bottom line: This is a great Linux laptop. The only hiccup is getting the wifi card working. My laptop has a Realtek RTL8723DE. Search for this with instructions of how to get it working in Ubuntu and you'll find an article on how to do it on the ubuntu handbook website. Also, once you've got it open it is easy to add another 8GB of RAM (12GB total) or two 8GB dimms (replace the included 4GB) for 16GB total. It uses a standard m2 NVME stick so you could swap that for a 256/512/1TB model. The wifi card is modular so it can be replaced. There is also a large cavity where a hard drive would have gone in the past - under the right palm rest - and an extra M2 storage connector. I haven't tried it but I suspect you could pop some sort of thin SSD in there for an extra TB or so of storage as well.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.The only thing to consider when looking for a laptop is the storage. You can either do a dual boot where you would need a boot loader. Or you could delete Windows entirely and put Linux on it.
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