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Last year I got a new laptop. I wanted a laptop that would be good to use with Linux. And not too expensive. And upgradable.

So I got a ThinkPad E595. Something of a budget machine, but good enough for me. Ryzen 7 3700U. I added some more memory and replaced the NVMe SSD with a 1 TB Samsung EVO 970 Plus and added a 2 TB Crucial MX500 SATA SSD. And installed Ubuntu Mate 19.10 and added a PPA for the Radeon GPU.

And guess what! Everything just works!

I have easily room for most of my calibre libraries on the NVMe SSD and plenty of room for blazingly fast versioned snapshots on the SATA SSD.

So I would argue that it is possible to use Linux on new hardware just fine! But you need to choose what hardware to get.

Before this laptop I had a 14" HP Pavilion. It worked perfectly with Linux as well. But was poorly built and fell apart. And was not upgradable. The E595 feels much more robust.

Looking forward to Ubuntu Mate 20.4 later this month!