Alright /g/ I have a question and I need your advice. I'm

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Alright /g/ I have a question and I need your advice.

I'm going traveling and need a laptop on the cheap. I would like to dual boot a linux distro along with windows for photo and video editing along with allowing the less tech literate people I'm going with to be able to use it to call home and what have you.

It needs a long battery life because don't know when I'm gonna be near a power source when we are moving about.

I've been looking at the Lenovo ideapad 100S but I've been reading that it uses UEFI so its a pain/near impossible to install linux. Plus its got soldered memory and is generally shit. I've also looked into chrome books but I don't think you can dual boot with them.

I'm stuck between a rock and hard place here and I need advice. I've got a x220 that I'm using currently, but I don't really want to take it with me due to its battery life being not great and its got a bunch of work stuff on it.

tl;dr Need a laptop for traveling, needs to be able to dual boot win/linux and have a long battery life.

Thanks

Anonymous 2016-09-13 09:08:21 Post No.56578970
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Anonymous 2016-09-13 09:08:21 Post No.56578970 [Report]

>>56578945
Ubuntu, Arch, and Fedora all support UEFI booting. You just need to be able to disable secure boot.

Anonymous 2016-09-13 09:17:10 Post No.56579019
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Anonymous 2016-09-13 09:17:10 Post No.56579019 [Report]

>>56578970
I thought so but from what I've been reading its difficult to install and if you get it to work things fail like the wifi card and sound card become unrecognized, battery percentage stays at 100% regardless if its plunged in and other shit breaks as well.

Thanks for the response

Anonymous 2016-09-13 09:53:23 Post No.56579287
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Anonymous 2016-09-13 09:53:23 Post No.56579287 [Report]

No ideas /g/?

Been looking at an x201 or x200 cheap and just thinking of dual booting and deal with the battery issues.

Anonymous 2016-09-13 11:55:11 Post No.56580249
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>>56579019
>if you get it to work things fail like the wifi card and sound card become unrecognized, battery percentage stays at 100% regardless if its plunged in and other shit breaks as well.

That would be just some standard Linux behavior.

Anonymous 2016-09-13 11:57:45 Post No.56580270
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Anonymous 2016-09-13 11:57:45 Post No.56580270 [Report]

>>56580249
So if that's standardized behavior do you think the 100S is a good fit?

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