HPis the latest big laptop manufacturer to embrace Linux – to a degree – with the release of the HP Dev One. Rather than running Windows, this laptop, which HP is aiming at developers, comes with Linux Pop!_OS preinstalled, as well as a custom keyboard for using with Linux.
The specs are pretty impressive, with an eight-core AMD Ryzen 7 Pro CPU, 16GB of DDR4 RAM and 1TB of SSD storage, and it has a 14-inch display with 1080p resolution and 1,000 nit brightness, so it should be pretty comfortable to work on. At the moment it can only be pre-ordered in the US, and costs $1,099. Pop!_OS comes with the Cosmic desktop environment, enabling users to quickly tile windows and use multiple virtual desktops to help with coding, and it has access to Flatpak applications via the Pop Shop, along with frequent kernel and driver updates. If you’re concerned about the amount of RAM, the good news is that it can be user-upgradable, so you can bump it up to 32GB or higher if your workload demands it.