Laptop+distro

[SaiberDawg]

Hi everyone,

Is enyone using radium on linux laptop? Could you suggest me a linux oriented laptop well equipped for running radium in live settings?

For example is a thinkpad suitable? Is pinebook good enought?
or the best choice is to buy a macbook and install a linux distro? I'm currently using Ubuntu Studio, so a pretty entry level normy distro, but I'm open in changing it for anything that works well. Any suggestion?


Thanks

[kjetil]

Most laptops should be fine I think. I don't think I would use an arm-based macbook though, if using Linux. I don't know of anyone that has used Radium on an arm-based computer, except through rosetta. So no, pinebook might not work very well, since it's arm-based. Thinkpad should be good.

Regarding distro, I'm using ubuntu to develop Radium, so that shouldn't be a problem, but most distros should work fine I think.

[dtcrnk]

i have a thinkpad t 430 it work perfectly with radium(i'm using manjaro as linux distro)

[kjetil]

ARM-based computers should now work fine with Radium. There's no binary distribution of Radium for ARM for Linux though, but it is possible to compile yourself. However, I might add ARM-binaries for Linux if requested enough times.

[kjetil]

But again, Pinebook might not a good laptop for Radium. The reason is that it only has 2GB of memory, which sounds too little.

[sacredbirdman]

ARM-based computers should now work fine with Radium. There's no binary distribution of Radium for ARM for Linux though, but it is possible to compile yourself. However, I might add ARM-binaries for Linux if requested enough times.

Depending on how the Qualcomm Elite X laptops fare with Linux (and how the Asahi Linux situation develops) we might see the rise of ARM based Linux machines in the nearish future. I very much hope so

[kjetil]

Yeah, me too. It's really nice not having a fan and not always having the electric chord connected. I see the Qualcomm Elite X laptops do have a fan though, but hopefully it doesn't turn on very often, but I guess there'll be other high-performing ARM-laptops soon as well.

[dtcrnk]

do you have an habit about the size of you laptop screen (15 inch is enough i guess)