Best products from r/linuxmasterrace

We found 23 comments on r/linuxmasterrace discussing the most recommended products. We ran sentiment analysis on each of these comments to determine how redditors feel about different products. We found 107 products and ranked them based on the amount of positive reactions they received. Here are the top 20.

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u/Ch4rl35DW4rd86 · 3 pointsr/linuxmasterrace

I'd suggest a Thinkpad x270 with the i7-7600U (3.90 GHz - https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/97466/intel-core-i7-7600u-processor-4m-cache-up-to-3-90-ghz.html) and a IPS 1366x768 screen

MX Linux 18.3, antiX 17 and Absolute Linux work great on this laptop, plus it supports up to 32 GB of ram and the IPS 1366x768 screen is great. MX Linux 18.3 supports all the special Fn keys by default, it is not the case with antiX and Absolute

You can play GTA V with tons of mods at a reasonable framerate with Lutris

I have the version with the i5-6200U and 16 GB ram (originally the laptop came with 4 GB of ram, and a 256gb HDD I replaced with a 1tb WD hdd, am planning to add this M.2: https://www.amazon.com/ZTC-256GB-Armor-Drive-ZTC-SM201-256G/dp/B00YDHKIMG) and am pretty happy with it

u/WyattTechCoursesJohn · 1 pointr/linuxmasterrace
  1. Won't answer since others have already answered.
  2. Take a course on Ubuntu (my own course sadly is not ready). I am not too certain of one for 18.04. There is a quite a difference between 16.04 (April 2016) and 18.04 (April 2018)'s release in look and feel. (This is expected to be a one time change.)

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    If you want privacy you need to host things yourself. An easy starter would be to setup Syncthing https://syncthing.net/ on all your computers and sync common work and personal folders. I do this for my business's work and documents. It can scale to large videos and projects very well so you can use it to setup a remote backup server with a friendly gui.

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    When you are ready to get more advanced you can buy a little NAS (a tutorial linked below) and setup both syncthing and Nextcloud https://nextcloud.com/ on it. Nextcloud is a google drive/docs replacement.

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    https://www.amazon.com/Synology-bay-DiskStation-DS218j-Diskless/dp/B076G6YKWZ

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    It's a little advanced so if you can just run syncthing on your computers would be a good start.

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    There are quite a few free tutorials for the open source equivalent applications. See below for my picks for the equivalent on Photoshop and Microsoft Office.

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    https://wyatttechcourses.com/pages/free_tutorials

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  3. I do not see why not. If you buy enterprise (and Intel) it will work flawlessly because Linux dominates the enterprise, server, and scientific computing (and hollywood rendering). Linux does have trouble getting support for consumer devices (esp cheap ones) and bluetooth is a mixed bag. Software for your field is the real issue as I make course videos and the open source stuff just isn't ready. (OBS is an exception and now dominates the industry for streaming.)

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    If you buy a laptop I highly recommend System76. Laptops have a lot of custom work in them that makes it difficult for the community to get working 100% on Linux. System76 does a lot of little things like contributing to patches, flashing Linux friendly custom firmware to get things working 100%, and they offer lifetime support. (They just sent me a free replacement for a v key I just broke off.) Plus you will be supporting a Linux vendor.

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    https://system76.com/laptops

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    (WyattTechCourses has no affiliation with System76.com, I just buy all my laptops from them.)

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    Edit: reddit's formatting does not want to cooperate.
u/826836 · 2 pointsr/linuxmasterrace

Based on your post and some comments, it feels like this is more an excuse to bitch about a brand your dislike (Apple) than search for actual answers, but nevertheless, only two real possibilities come to mind:

1.) Chromebase (http://www.amazon.com/LG-ChromeBase-22CV241-W-22-Inch-Desktop/dp/B00JR625WO). The specs are in-line with normal Chromebooks, which is to say not great (and definitely not nearing an iMac), but it's about the only other device I can think of with that form factor (and it fully supports Linux, or should anyways).

2.) An iMac. If you search Apple's site, you can often save a good chunk of money buying refurb (and their refurb policy is excellent; new battery and basing, same warranty as new) and even more if you have an EDU address for a student discount. I'd look there or maybe buy an older, used one and plunk Linux down on top of it.

Also, while your one-off should be reasonably trivial, I can't imagine anyone actually designing such a device, neat though it sounds. There's virtually no Linux device (save for Android) in existence where it's particularly profitable nor gaining any notable market share, so I can't imagine designing a seemingly-niche form factor (and one often aimed at less-technical users) for Linux.

u/OnMySickday · 2 pointsr/linuxmasterrace

I did something like this a while back, but the first upgrade for me was the SSD.

Nearly all chromebooks have eMMC SSD and you can easily upgrade them with something like this for pretty cheap. Good luck :)

u/M4GNV5 · 2 pointsr/linuxmasterrace

Hey there.

A 128GB SSD option would be cool. 256GB would be nice too but sadly SSD's are still pretty expensive right now. (64$ for 128GB but 147$ for 256GB on amazon)
According to your comment above (-20$ when buying without a drive) that should make the price ~293$ with a 128GB one?

Also is the NODISK thing mentioned above something permanent? Or was it special for the question above? You could also add a no drive option to the selection but I assume the customer you are targeting with the device might select it and be confused.

I would love to buy one with a SSD for use at university. How long would it take to deliver to Germany and how much would it cost? Also very important for use at places where many other laptop users are: Does it support 5GHz wlan? Or only 2.4GHz?

Also honestly, as you seem to target (ex-)windows user and mostly non-geeks, I dont think this is the right place to take suggestions. As I expected most people here want to customize / add more RAM (or use another harddrive). However this is definitely nothing other customers care about.

Sorry for the long text and thanks in advance for a response.

u/trashcan86 · 3 pointsr/linuxmasterrace

Sorry it took so long!

Plan 1 - a new laptop and a refurbished one: If you want to get the 13 year old something nicer, go for the ThinkPad T450 (NOT T450s) directly from Lenovo's site.

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/t450/

I'd configure it with i5-5200U, 8 GB RAM, 180 GB SSD (deselect the NGFF), 1080p nontouch display. I'd buy this today, 6 December, as you get significant ($300 ish) savings. It should cost $1020 or so when configured.

Then, for your 6 year old, buy this ThinkPad X201 with Core i5-520M, 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD for $220:

http://arrowdirect.com/lenovo-thinkpad-x201-2-4ghz-intel-core-i5-gen1-128-ssdgb-4096gb.html

Total: $1253.70 plus tax

Plan 2 - Refurbished monsters: I like this plan a little more, but you have to do a bit of work yourself. Buy two of these ThinkPad T430s laptops with i5-3320M, 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD from Arrow Direct:

http://arrowdirect.com/lenovo-t430s-2-60ghz-intel-core-i5-gen3-128-ssdgb-4096mb.html

Then, some upgrades. Buy two of these Crucial BX100 250GB SSDs from Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-BX100-250GB-Internal-Solid/dp/B00RQA6TEI

(I know that the laptops come with SSDs, but they will be crusty old slow 2011 SSDs). Please don't buy the newer BX200 as they are made cheaply and they are twice as slow.

Also, buy two of these 16 GB RAM kits from here:

http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-DDR3L-1600-PC3-12800-CT2K8G3S160BM-CT2C8G3S160BM/dp/B008LTBJFW/

These will take some time to put together, but they will give you two 3.9 LB monsters.

Total: $990.28 plus tax plus twenty minutes of your time

Plan 3 - The HP route: Buy two of these HP EliteBook 9480M laptops with i5-4310U, 4GB RAM, 180GB SSD from Arrow Direct:

http://arrowdirect.com/hp-compaq-elitebook-folio-9480m-2-00ghz-intel-core-i5-gen4-180-ssdgb-4096mb-5.html

Then buy the same 16GB RAM kits from Amazon. You don't need to replace the SSDs as they are from 2013-2014 and are just as fast as today's SSDs.

Total: $1002.68 plus tax plus ten minutes of your time

Of these three plans, I like Plan 2 the best as long as you have the time (and judging from the fact that you use Gentoo, you should).

u/8fingerlouie · 11 pointsr/linuxmasterrace

man pages really are good enough once you got the basics down. They were 20 years ago, and I don’t think the quality has decreased. If you want truly great man pages, FreeBSD is the place to go.

To get the basics down, start with something like this

Once you understand that, follow up with something like this

Young people today.. they pick Arch to “learn something” (or just to be cool - I can’t decide), and when the learning part starts, they want the answers served without any effort.
There’s nothing wrong with wanting to learn, just don’t expect to be finished in 4 hours.

I’ve spent 20 years as a Unix system administrator and/or developed systems running on Unix. Before I had kids I spent a few years working on Stampede Linux. My first Linux distribution was “Yggdrasil Plug&Play Linux fall ‘93”. I still learn new stuff frequently, and it usually starts with something I find on the internet, which then get tried on my own machine, and finally i use man pages for troubleshooting/fine tuning.

If that fails, I do what everybody else does, i ask google, and if I still can’t solve the issue, I will ask somewhere. Last issue I had was Debian <-> FreeBSD NFSv4 mounts with Kerberos that would freeze frequently. I spent a couple of weeks debugging that before asking, and learned a great deal in the process. After google started returning only purple links, I finally asked on a couple of forums.

u/MrBabyToYou · 1 pointr/linuxmasterrace

For sure! Mine is petty old, so I don't think it's sold anymore, but if I were to get another this guy looks alright.

External drive enclosures like this, that let you swap drives quickly, are pretty handy if you're only concerned with sata.

There's probably better choices out there, but it'll get you started. :)

u/whiteandpastry · 1 pointr/linuxmasterrace

I would start by running Linux in a VM (Virtual Machine) under Windows. Take a look at VMWare Player. This way you can try out different Linux distributions to familiarize yourself with them and decide which one you like best, all without compromising your ability to get your job/school work done.

Try to accomplish everything you need to within a Linux VM. Learn how to install and remove software with the package manager. Learn how to use the shell effectively (especially creating pipelines of commands). Learn how the filesystem works, mounting devices. Learn how to configure networking. Once you've figured out which distribution you like, and feel confident that you can do everything you need to, then install Linux as your primary OS.

Even then you could still set up dual boot or run Windows in a VM under Linux if you still really need Windows. For example, I worked somewhere that used Excel spreadsheets with lots of VBA/macros that just wouldn't work with OpenOffice. For me, games are the only reason I still keep Windows 7 around.

Google search is your friend, as well as here and linuxquestions.org. When I switched to Linux back in the late 1990's I relied on A Practical Guide to the UNIX System a lot. It's out of print, but if you can find a cheap used version it's worth picking up.

u/nirkosesti · 7 pointsr/linuxmasterrace

I used Ubuntu years ago but what exactly makes it restrictive? You can change the whole desktop environment with simple sudo apt get and config file adjustment. Not to mention variois tools for gnome to do stuff.

I’d definitely start with using Ubuntu variant or Debian and learn some bash and then proceed somewhere. Hacking is pretty retarded term IMO but OP will figure it out eventually.

There is this book for people like this, that is newbies who found the term hacking and are interested. It uses Kali linux but just sandbox it and you’re good to go. At least back in the day wit back track os the tools were actually pretty annoying to find so it’s better to just install kali somewhere

u/brothersand · 1 pointr/linuxmasterrace

If you have to use Windows, and many of us do, do yourself a favor and learn some PowerShell. "ls" is a supported alias. In fact, a lot of Unix style commands are. It even uses the pipeline "|" only instead of piping text you are passing .Net objects.

> ps notepad | kill

You don't have to parse out the process id. It derives that from the object.

Do yourself a further favor and install Git. Then you can include all the tools under its usr/bin directory in your path and have such tools as grep, du, find, ssh, scp, etc. all complied for Windows.

The look on a Windows sysadmin's face when you ssh to a remote server from a pwsh command line makes it all worthwhile.

Edit: I mean, I even run vim with a custom vimrc file in a pwsh console on Windows 10 with my keyboard remapped to Dvorack. And GVim is my default tool for .txt files. I get a lot of weird looks from the Windows sysadmins.

Edit #2: If you want some really squirrely but very effective Win cmd style commands, check out the Red Team Field Manual. Some good shit in here for Linux too.

u/sail4sea · 1 pointr/linuxmasterrace

Here is the vroom i used to learn Linux commands in college back in 1997. https://www.amazon.com/UNIX-System-Practical-Guide-3rd/dp/080537566X/ref=sr_1_19?crid=3TRSPWP5F25OH&keywords=mark+sobell&qid=1574770680&sprefix=Mark+sob%2Caps%2C176&sr=8-19

The commands are similar and i still use it to look up commands I forgot the options on.

Don’t use it. Use something written in this millennium and actually for Linux, not an old version of Unix. But any Linux command line book should help you out.


I’d run Debian if I were just learning Linux today. It’s intermediate level. If you want easy, buy a Raspberry Pi and play with that. There is a huge community that supports them and the knowledge is scalable. And you can’t really permanently break a Raspberry Pi.

u/EINARR_THE_BERSERKER · 1 pointr/linuxmasterrace

If you want to use the terminal all of the time, get in the habit of launching the terminal and using it to open your applications. Simply typing in "firefox" will open Firefox, and so on and so forth!

Also, download ranger. It's a text-based file manager. I love it. You'll launch that the same way you launched firefox above ;)

Do all of you updates and downloads through the terminal. Don't be ashamed to Google how to do things or what commands you need to enter. Even expert users who have used Ubuntu for years don't have all of that memorized.

The Ubuntu Unleashed series is also a really good way to get to know your way around the OS through the terminal.

u/CaptSkunk · 2 pointsr/linuxmasterrace

Definitely go the upgrade route. Trust me, it is worth it. Boot time is around 15 seconds now. Things load instantly. It is like I have a new machine.

You can actually use both. Get something like this and you can replace the dvd drive with your old HDD. Or, some SSD's come with a USB to SATA plug. You plug your HDD into the adapter and plug the USB into the port and you now have an external drive. I use my old HDD as my Time Machine backup disk now.

u/FeetOnGrass · 1 pointr/linuxmasterrace

I went the opposite direction. I chose Mac, and my work gave me a 15" pro with 4 ports, and this dual usb hub. So far, it has been a pretty smooth experience. I have (almost) fully gotten used to the keyboard, and the trackpad experience makes me wish KDE had such an experience oob. Being able to triple finger swipe across different workspaces is godsend. The whole os feels like Elementary OS in how restrictive it is (ironic). Simple things like setting up a custom shortcut require tedious workarounds, but with all that said, it is still at least a 100 times better than Windows (with Linux being 500 times better). You literally can't pay me to use Windows.

u/djblushberry · 2 pointsr/linuxmasterrace

Oh dear. Are you sure? it said I could set them individually i thought. I have this one https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AJILG1K/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It says "Multi Color key" is it just like that on linux? or for real this keyboard can only do all keys that same color? I mean it's not a tremendous deal it's still a very very nice keyboard. But dang.. :C

u/ResidentCollar · 2 pointsr/linuxmasterrace

I get the "trying to make it work" and all...

But honestly? Just buy another wifi adapter.

You can get them for like $7US, shipped to you in 2 days: https://www.amazon.com/Edimax-EW-7811Un-150Mbps-Raspberry-Supports/dp/B003MTTJOY

u/7U5K3N · 1 pointr/linuxmasterrace

To piggy back on this comment... I have sever of these floating around.. Works in everything I've ever put it in..

Edimax EW-7811Un 150Mbps 11n Wi-Fi USB Adapter, Nano Size Lets You Plug it and Forget it, Ideal for Raspberry Pi / Pi2, Supports Windows, Mac OS, Linux (Black/Gold) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003MTTJOY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_RPOAxbXS7GBQV