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The choice of laptop will mainly depend on your needs and workflow.

My main machine is an HP Stream 11 2017 edition. It's very small and portable and has great battery life (I easily get 8.5hours a day out of it).

In terms of specs it's extremely limited, only having 2gb of RAM and all but because I'm mostly working on remote VPS instances, I don't really feel the lack of memory.

Oh and I obviously wiped windows and replaced it with xubuntu 16.04.

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Same here. I vary across distributions, going from OpenSUSE to Ubuntu to Fedora back to Ubuntu, but XFCE is the only constant there. I spend my day switching between the command line and a browser so XFCE is just what I need as a desktop environment.

My workflow is very similar. I think you might get some benefit from a tiling wm. I use DWM personally, but you might want to check them out

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