Lifelong Mac user here, enjoyed the thread on what distros other hexbears use. I'm looking to preserve privacy a bit more by moving away from a walled garden. I'd like to move to using a linux distro at home, but am curious about the hardware to use. (Should add here that I'm a software engineer...my code isn't that hardware intensive but I mean I have to run an IDE so that can burn a lot of cycles.) Something I really like about AppleSi is the battery life + performance...it feels really unappealing to buy a clunky intel or amd laptop and get worse battery life. Any suggestions for hardware to look for? (I'd prefer to buy something second hand.)
Framework for sure, specifically the 13 with the new higher res screen. It’s a perfect 2x scale which is really nice.
The older screen is fine, but some older x11 programs will be scaled wrong.
There are other nice laptops of course: dell xps, thinkpad x1c, huawei matebooks, but imo the framework laptops are better in most regards and as a bonus you can upgrade the ram, cpu, and motherboard without needing to buy a new computer. You also can buy them without a windows license which usually makes them cheaper than the others for similar specs (unless you’re going for used of course).
Do matebooks have good Linux support? That is not what I heard, iirc.
Reasonably okay (but maybe don't get the absolute newest model), but not as good as the others which are all excellent. I mostly put them in the list because they've got excellent build quality, good keyboard, trackpad, etc, and a very nice screen. Basically if you want a macbook with linux (for cheaper than a macbook with linux https://asahilinux.org/) they're pretty reasonable. They also support openbsd which is neat https://jcs.org/2021/08/20/matebook
The laptops I listed are in order of preference imo. Framework is definitely in a class of itself, but if they don't ship to your country or something then getting an xps with linux pre-installed is great and then finally as a backup either a thinkpad or matebook.