Hi, I’m looking for a good laptop to run linux that has a touchscreen with a stylus to take math notes(ik I should be using latex or typst but im too lazy) and good battery life, preferably one that folds into tablet mode to make taking notes easier.

I’m not planning on doing any gaming or video editing on it, just web/notes/programming and potentially a windows VM for software that doesn’t work on linux. I also want to try getting into some ricing :). I’ve been looking at the lenovo yoga 9i, it seems to be pretty good and I found some people that had good linux experiences with it. One thing that would be nice is an hdmi port which the yoga doesn’t have as my job involves a lot of AV stuff, but I can just get an adapter.

Any other suggestions? I can probably spend like 1000$ on it but obviously less is better, I’ll probably get it used/refurbished from ebay.

  • piguyisme@programming.devOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Thanks for the suggestion! I didn’t even know the framework 12 came out yet, it seems great but I’m not sure if the repairability is worth it for its price/performance and the fact that it would be hard to get one used. The yoga 9i does have thunderbolt and there are some pretty good deals for it on Ebay, I might get a framework later if I can find one used but I doubt I can this close to when it released.