14 Laptop

I bought an HP Envy 14 laptop in 2010 for college with Windows 7. Loved it even with all it's quirks. 2012 and Windows 8 comes out. I wanna be on top of all the latest tech so I updated, and these quirks become problems (e.g. Brightness is stuck at highest, annoying but workable). Stupid HP also sto

"HP has a super inexpensive laptop available at Walmart that is surprisingly useful and upgradeable for its $179 price tag. A great pairing for Linux."

Hey everyone, I could use some advice.

I bought an transcend 14 about 3 months ago. After about a month of use, I started running into all sorts of problems — artifacting, overheating, and random black screens. I reached out to HP support, and for almost 2 months we kept going back and forth. They

Hi,

This is the most incredible laptop I've ever used. They are supposed to get faster, but this thing is so inexpensive and so powerful! Ryzen 3 w/ a Radeon GPU, it's just amazing.

I'm running Linux Mint Cinnamon on it. It installed easily, no problems, no extra drivers to hunt for.

IMHO, It'

So I'm looking for a new laptop for university. I'm currently try to set a foot into the world of cyber security and after my current laptop, due to low performance, can't handle many of the things I have to run on it (two virtual machines at once, virus scanner programs don't terminate etc.

Costco has an HP 14" Laptop on sale for $299. I just got one for my mom, slapped Fedora 30 with XFCE4 on it and everything worked out of the box perfectly; wifi, bluetooth, the touchpad and all. It only comes with 4GB of ram, but it does have a second memory slot open and will take up to 16GB i

Hi,

This is the most incredible laptop I've ever used. They are supposed to get faster, but this thing is so inexpensive and so powerful! Ryzen 3 w/ a Radeon GPU, it's just amazing.

I'm running Linux Mint Cinnamon on it. It installed easily, no problems, no extra drivers to hunt for.

IMHO, It'

HP has a super inexpensive laptop available at Walmart that is surprisingly useful and upgradeable for its $179 price tag. A great pairing for Linux.

The reason I'm asking is because I got Windows 11 sometime in 2022 and installed it on my HP 14" Laptop.

The experience was a nightmare. The start menu wouldn't open even after restarting multiple times, the settings app would open for a few seconds and then crash even after also restarting. After

I got this laptop new in late July/early August. I am having a few very frustrating issues:

-Sometimes (like 1 in 30 times) when I close it, it shuts all the way off (despite a full battery), takes forever to turn back on, and acts like I've restarted it

-It randomly opens browser extensions and a