Re: Half OT: laptop reccomendations

On Tue, 21 Dec 2021, at 01:26, Gary Aitken wrote:
> On 12/20/21 12:43 PM, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
>> 
>> Hello.
>> 
>> I'm looking for a small (12" max) laptop which can be used with
>> FreeBSD. Nothing fancy, really: >=8GiB RAM, possibly FullHD, possibly
>> 4 cores and possibly with (old) USB ports.
>> 
>> Finding such a small laptop has become difficult; finding such a
>> small laptop which doesn't come infested with Windows has proven
>> impossible up to now.
>> 
>> Any hint on a brand/producer I should check?
>
> I recently took delivery of a framework, primarily because of the repairability
> and upgradeability of it.
>
> I normally run fbsd but needed linux for a couple of apps.  I put ubuntu
> 21.10 on it and so far it's been pretty good.  If someone would give me a good
> recommendation for a dual boot loader I would consider reloading it with both
> ubuntu and fbsd.
>
> Gary

If you're native UEFI, then refind is excellent.

A+
Dave