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2017 Phoronix Linux Laptop Survey Results

posted by martyb on Sunday July 09 2017, @09:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the survivor-bias? dept.

canopic jug writes:

After a two week survey period, Phoronix has published the results from their inaugural Linux Laptop Survey. There were 30,171 responses and while there may be some additional follow-up articles in the days/weeks ahead, the initial review has been published. One goal of the survey was to gather feedback about the current state of GNU/Linux hardware compatibility. Overall the situation is better than it was even a few years ago, but there are still many problems here and there. The situation is summed up in two pages, complete with diagrams, over at Phoronix.

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  • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Sunday July 09 2017, @02:25PM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Sunday July 09 2017, @02:25PM (#536831)

    I think survey respondents were kind of self-selecting, which will affect the results quite a lot. I responded, and my main laptop is a 17" System76 machine that I'm pretty happy with. Having Linux pre-loaded helps a lot in ensuring that you won't run into any problems with hardware. I have laptops from Acer and Lenovo as well, and while they both have very good Linux support, I know there are other manufacturers that will actually vary hardware on occasion even within a specific model (wifi, etc). It makes things difficult sometimes. Really, the only hardware I've every really had trouble with is fussing around with the NVidia/Intel dual video machines, and the nightmare of support that is RaLink wifi cards. Those things are a "toss and replace" item these days.

    I've got to give a thumbs up for my System76 machine. Four years later with pretty heavy daily use for browsing, software development, and gaming, I haven't even thought about replacing it. Still solid, still fast. I think it's actually a rebranded Clevo laptop, which is one of the ones on the list in the survey.

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