Just bought a #DELL 3190 laptop, new for $150 (11.6" screen, 64GB eMMC). It's fully supported on #Linux, and even if it has a Celeron N4120 CPU and only 4 GB of RAM, it'll work fine with #Mint, or #XFCE (and #Gnome/ #KDE if you don't mind some minor lag). Not opening too many browser tabs will ensure that the swap file won't get used too often.
If you're on a tight budget this is a good option, as it also has great battery life too at 10 hours with Linux.
@eugenialoli great price!
I miss small laptops :(
Do you know/can you tell if the emmc version has an available slot for M2 drive? Can't figure it out from Dell website
@sonny It's a small laptop, so I don't expect it to have additional storage abilities. Although they were some models of the 3190 that came with 128GB, so you might wanna hunt for these instead.
Debian takes 9 GB of space on a clean install btw, fedora 12GB, ubuntu/mint take 16GB. In fact, I have some installations of Debian/XFce at 16 GB emmc (ex-chromebooks). Tight, but it works. So at least for me, 64GB is plenty. The 4 GB of RAM will (eventually) be a bigger problem than internal storage.
@eugenialoli @sonny I use Xubuntu and 4 Gb RAM it's quite enough, if you don't want to use video-editing.
btw: Don't you think sometimes the device is faster if you don't have a swap-file?
@eugenialoli @sonny I'm running Debian/Gnome on a Toshiba Chromebook with 16GB eMMC and 4GB RAM. I don't have a lot of other stuff installed, but it is useful as a "kitchen laptop" when I don;t want to expose my XPS 13 to cooking risks.
This thing is tough. I was using it on a ladder in my garage and accidentally knocked it off so it dropped about 5 feet to a concrete floor. One corner of the case popped open but I snapped it back and it's otherwise unharmed.
It has a FHD IPS screen.