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Discussion on: What is the best laptop for coding and what should you look for? 💻

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riidom

Here is a linux-centric discussion about developer laptop recommendations: pointieststick.com/2020/05/17/help...

And here a review about the KDE Slimbook (AMD 8-core Ryzen 4800H): pointieststick.com/2020/07/23/the-...

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Isn't KDE desktop env itself a bloat?

I would always recommend one to focus on being fast and easy to navigate, therefore perhaps Terminal and Spotlight.

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riidom

Well, how do you measure bloat? Idle RAM usage? It's pretty low, actually. If this metric has any worth even.
But anyway, it's about laptops, not distros. If one distro is known to run well, you can be pretty sure others do so too, since hardware support is job of the kernel.