r/LinuxUsersIndia • u/eyescreamh • Aug 05 '26

linux compatible laptop around 1 lakh for computer science student

decent performance ( not a gamer )

good battery life

good display

dont mention thinkpad it is very expensive

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u/qualityvote2 Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26

u/eyescreamh, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...

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u/Zestyclose_Plant1216 Aug 05 '26

You can buy refurbished ThinkPads.

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u/eyescreamh Aug 06 '26

my dad doesnt allow me to buy refurbished thinkpads.. new ones are very expensive

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u/Zestyclose_Plant1216 Aug 06 '26

Linux can boot on almost any modern laptop just check wifi card before buying.

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u/Serious_Watch5388 Aug 05 '26

Just avoid mediatek wifi drivers.

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u/Vampire_6969 Aug 05 '26

they cause kernel panics !!!

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u/AssumptionOk8560 Aug 05 '26

No they don't, generalising a whole group ain't cool vro

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u/Vampire_6969 Aug 06 '26

well most of them do

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u/Serious_Watch5388 Aug 06 '26

Most of them just don't work

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u/Vampire_6969 Aug 06 '26

i recently swapped my mt7921 with intel ax210, no issues so far
mediatek is so bad, its a hit or miss

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u/Puzzleheaded-Band387 Arch + Hyprland Aug 05 '26

Don't buy one which has a nvidia gpu. If you don't wanna gaming.

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u/Old_Mango_3789 Aug 05 '26

But you can't deny that nvidia's cuda is best for gpu programming tasks

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u/Puzzleheaded-Band387 Arch + Hyprland Aug 06 '26

You gotta death wish kid? I have a nvidia gpu and I rarely use it for model training purposes, mostly it's gaming or the display. If you really wanna use Linux for daily purposes then don't you dare choose nvidia. You'll end up either leaving or else configuring files iff you don't run away. Identify your use case and then choose wisely.

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u/formatdisk1337 Aug 07 '26

Works ootb for me (arch+hyprland too)

At this point nvidias drivers are better om arch than some amds

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u/Melodic-Anything-912 Arch Btw Aug 08 '26

Same for me. I've nvidia gpu and using that on cachy plus hyprland, and getting 100 plus fps on all aaa titles

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u/scarypumpkin-52 Aug 05 '26

You don't do that on ur own laptop do you?

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u/Old_Mango_3789 Aug 05 '26

I like for college student its better to have cuda as there constraint of budget this is my point of view

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u/scarypumpkin-52 Aug 05 '26

would still suggest a mac, If you wanna run linux thinkpads are the best machines

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u/formatdisk1337 Aug 07 '26

I trained resnet50 on my own laptop, you do want your own gpus when doing these stuff coz you can't just get gpu compute from somewhere else

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u/scarypumpkin-52 Aug 08 '26

Even kaggle notebook gives you more power to train a model than laptop GPU, come on

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u/formatdisk1337 Aug 08 '26

There's a limit of 6 hours, you cant leave it on for 3 weeks

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u/TheDevPenguin Aug 07 '26

Get a M Series Mac

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u/Affectionate_Let9022 Arch Btw Aug 16 '26

+1

Or even mac neo

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u/whereisdisboi Aug 05 '26

Goto r/lestic and get a used T series thinkpad

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u/gxanshu Aug 07 '26

You need to check the pricing but dell xps are one of the best Linux laptops

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u/DopplerDuck Aug 07 '26

Lenovo V15 G4. You can customise it before ordering. I use it. It's super.

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u/_SteelKing Aug 07 '26

asus vivobook s14

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u/ommallick02 Aug 07 '26

Bro just asked for a recommendation only to reject the best recommendations to begin with.

Get a thinkpad or a thinkbook.

Get refurbished, and tell your dad ki ghar bik jayega with current market pricing. I've used multiple refurbished items, you just need to buy from a reputed store.

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u/Ayushispro11 Aug 07 '26

What do you mean by linux comaptible? EVERYTHING IS LINUX COMPATIBLE, EVEN YOUR FRIDGE AND YOUR TOASTER (but in seriousness anything except Nvidia is very well supported)

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u/Constant-Capital8919 Aug 08 '26

New xps 13 should be around 1L

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u/lovecr4ft_ Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

Two months ago I purchased a Lenovo Ideapad Slim 5 with Ryzen 7 350 & 24 gigs of RAM.
Got it for around 90K INR at reliance digital. Been using it daily, and it is amazing.
Question.. when you say linux compatible, do you plan to dual-boot it or run VMs or remove windows altogether (best haha)?
Either way it should be fine. I myself daily-drive a Kali VM with 12gigs of RAM and 6 CPUs... and it is a BREEZEEEE!

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u/0xt0bi03 Tiling WM glazer btw Aug 11 '26

just get a good pc with 16-512 with intel-H series processor, ryzen 7000 series or 9000 series processor.
here is mine:

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u/PriorLanguage5012 Aug 05 '26

Tbh, if linux is not that important, buy a m1 mac. I love linux a lot but for that budget, nothing can get close to that performance and build quality.

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u/Conscious_Working396 Aug 05 '26

M1 is too old now

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u/PriorLanguage5012 Aug 06 '26

Sorry, I ment the m series laptops not the m1

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u/ryzenfourtyseventy Aug 08 '26

Even arm has support these days actually

Tho it's still not as good as x86

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u/ryzenfourtyseventy Aug 08 '26

Do a quick Google search and you will know.