Looking for a budget notebook on the Linux is running and you can do the usual office stuff or watch movies for example. Used in the plane so it should have a relatively good battery. Can someone recommend me one?
Looking forward to answers:-)
Linux runs on every popular PC.
Usually Libre Office Linux is preinstalled (1000 times more beautiful than Windows), Microsoft Office is not available for Linux.
The PC should have the standard requirements (as with any operating system so that it runs properly)
at least (!): 4 GB of RAM, Intel Celeron (/ whatever) and ne suitable battery life.
Since pretty much every device sold meets these requirements, it does not matter.
The required performance depends mainly on what you want to do with the device (create 3D animations, hack encryption, or just Office and surfing.)
For example, if your laptop has 2 hard drives, you can install Windows on one and Unbutu on the other
Yes, I just thought about it, I'm only active in the desktop PC scene and I do not know anything about notebooks that you should buy like this:-)
You can do that on a hard drive too
@ Winter Grill
Yes, about a new partition. Personally I find something impractical, because of course the usable hard disk size per OS shrinks by half. Ne notebook hard drive is usually about 200GB, with 100GB fits next to the system only a little bit…
I also own a notebook with a Linux distribution as operating system. I purchased it through this dealer:
http://www.tuxedocomputers.com/
That's a thing with budget solutions. Since you really have to research properly whether the notebook really works with Linux. Often you have to live with it that certain hardware components do not work or only through costly adjustments to your distribution. This may well include components such as the keyboard or touchpad, so very basic functions. The existing firmware (EFI Bios) can get in the way during the Linux installation.
It's just that these "budget notebooks" are usually sold with the Windows logo. If they were intended for use on Linux, they would be awarded accordingly. Actually that is quite normal. No one would expect Windows to work fine on a Macbook.
Unfortunately, the freedom that Linux offers you as an operating system costs you money because only selected components that are really "out of the box" with Linux are installed. In addition, the market for such special products is of course smaller and that too should raise the price. Under 800 euro need with notebooks designed for Linux, in my experience, not to start.
