About
Who's behind this
One person, not a content team. I'm Dennis de Kruijf, a developer who has run Linux as a daily driver for years and got tired of laptop pages written by people who never opened a terminal. LaptopCompass is the site I wanted and could not find.
The Linux background
Distros run as a primary OS, not in a VM for a screenshot: Ubuntu for years, then Pop!_OS, now Fedora on the main machine. That is the lens every Linux page is written through.
Hardware run first-hand:
- Razer Blade 16 (2024), top CPU and top GPU. The NVIDIA proprietary driver story, suspend and resume behaviour, and battery life on Linux versus Windows are all things I've lived with on this machine, not read about. This is why NVIDIA laptops are capped at medium confidence in the Linux Readiness Score: I've watched that stack break across a kernel bump.
- Two Redmibooks, run on Linux: build quality for the price and distro compatibility on cheap hardware.
- Assorted other Chinese laptops, plus the distro comparisons done on all of the above (Pop!_OS versus Fedora on a gaming laptop is a real test, not a thought experiment).
That hands-on experience anchors the Linux pages and any model marked "Reviewed by Dennis" with a test date. Everything else is compiled and edited from public sources and community data, and labelled as such. A spec sheet is not hands-on experience and I won't pretend it is. The methodology page spells out exactly how the untested models are built, scored, and re-checked.
How the site is meant to make money
Right now it makes nothing. No affiliate programme is active, so outbound links are plain links and earn us nothing today. The plan is affiliate links and, later, display ads, with no lead generation and no newsletter. The score is computed before any link is attached, so a future payout cannot move the number. Full detail, and exactly what is and is not live, on the disclosure page.
Legal
LaptopCompass is a trade name of ClockwiseIT, a sole proprietorship run by Dennis de Kruijf, registered in the Netherlands.
- Trade name: LaptopCompass (trade name of ClockwiseIT)
- KvK: 71214364
- Legal form: sole proprietorship (eenmanszaak)
- Registered location: Boijl, Netherlands