Devuan ascii successfully installed, regularly used on the following
laptops:

Lenovo Thinkpad T550 -- the sd card reader does not work (think this
is a hardware problem though, I did get a refurbished machine)

HP Pavillion - not sure the exact model #

These next two ran ascii, then upgraded to beowulf:

Toshiba Satellite A135 (i386)

Acer Aspire AS7750G

The HP has a problem with the builtin wifi adapter (sometimes it works,
sometimes it disappears). I believe it's overheating. May replace it
someday, but using USB wifi adapter in the meantime.

How difficult was it? Not really any more than installing to a desktop.
Didn't run into any major problems. The installer didn't seem to be
the most intuitive for setting up LVM+LUKS volumes, but it did work,
eventually.


terryc wrote:
> This is a hardware question.
> Which brand and model(s) of laptop have people successfully installed
> devuan onto?
> How difficult was it?
>
> Thank You In Advance.
>
> The long story; I finally have a need to purchase my own personal
> laptop and have spent the last few days searching for such a beastie
> that I can order.
>
> I have a strong preference to not pay the Microsoft Tax and not waste
> my money on bits for which there are no linux drivers. Obviously
> running Devuan is preferable.
>
> Unfortunately, there appears to be no local vendor of Linux only
> laptops around any more. The only one in the coutry that I could
> located actually buys Win OS laptops and co-installs Linux and I'd
> prefer to avoid the future hassles that will cause(leopard-spots).
>
> Note, also having great difficulty finding out how to order such a
> beastie from the major global brands.
>
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