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Buying a new computer to run Linux on - suggestions?
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I can reccomend huawei laptops with metal chassis. I've had my matebook x pro for around 6 years. My past laptops made of plastic disentegrted over time
Clearly you never have a Thinkpad.
Once I a very sleepy adult human happened to accidentally stand smack in the middle of my ThinkPad P50, with plastic everything. It's 7 years old now, and still works fine.
Yeah meanwhile my kid stepped on my metal cased Dell when he was 3 and bent the metal, cracking the screen
I want one of those Panasonic rugged laptops that can withstand being run over with a truck. The are made to run outdoors and they work in very wet environments. They also have dual batteries that can be swapped quickly so you can have one on the changer and one in the device.
Chinese so not a great option
So there are safe countries and non safe countries now? Whats the difference?
I would avoid non Democratic countries. I especially wouldn't use Huawei as they have been cause putting backdoors in network equipment. You could argue that they got the idea from the NSA but I don't think the answer is to fight fire with fire.