Ask Slashdot: Best Laptop With Decent Linux Graphics Support?

Posted by timothy on Friday December 7, 2012 @03:33PM from the holy-grail-for-the-holidays dept.

jcreus writes "After struggling for some years with Nvidia cards (the laptop from which I am writing this has two graphic cards, an Intel one and Nvidia one, and is a holy mess [I still haven't been able to use the Nvidia card]) and, encouraged by Torvalds' middle finger speech, I've decided to ditch Nvidia for something better. I am expecting to buy another laptop and, this time, I'd like to get it right from the start. It would be interesting if it had decent graphics support and, in general, were Linux friendly. While I know Dell has released a Ubuntu laptop, it's way off-budget. My plan is to install Ubuntu, Kubuntu (or even Debian), with dual boot unfortunately required." So: what's the state of the art for out-of-the-box support?

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Straight Intel by fnj · 2012-12-07 15:44 · Score: 0, Troll

Intel HD2000/3000/4000. The only graphics worth a bucket of warm spit. If you need more than that you're doing it wrong.
1. Re:Straight Intel by fnj · 2012-12-07 22:20 · Score: 1, Troll
  
  Couldn't give a shit about games. Maybe that's the difference. I use computers for actual productive purposes, and I care a lot about power efficiency.