About
One person, not a content team
I'm Dennis de Kruijf, a developer who got tired of laptop pages written by people who never opened a terminal or used the machine past one charge cycle. LaptopCompass is the site I wanted and could not find, so I built it.
The editorial position
Most buyers here are on Windows and will stay there, so the recommendation has to be the right Windows laptop for the job, not a push toward the OS I prefer. Linux is the site's angle, not its audience. Every model page is bylined for how it was made. Today that is Compiled and edited by Dennis: cited against a source for every score, with no first-person claims. The stronger tier, Reviewed by Dennis with a test date, is reserved for the machines I genuinely run day to day (below) and is the only label allowed to claim first-person things like week-of-use suspend behaviour or keyboard feel; those write-ups are in progress. The methodology page spells out what each label may claim.
The Linux background, in hardware
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 lens anchors every Linux page and explains where the rubric's confidence caps sit.
- Razer Blade 16, 2024 Top CPU and GPU. I have lived with the NVIDIA driver story, suspend and resume, and Linux-versus-Windows battery on this machine, which is why NVIDIA laptops are capped at medium confidence in the Linux Readiness Score: I watched that stack break across a kernel bump on my own desk.
- Two Redmibooks, on Linux Build quality at the bottom of the price ladder, and distro compatibility on cheap Chinese hardware. Pop!_OS versus Fedora on a gaming laptop is a real test, not a thought experiment.
- Assorted Chinese laptops The "is the wifi card on the kernel allow-list" question, asked a lot. The honest answer is "sometimes", and the page says which.
Everything beyond that hardware is compiled and edited from public sources and community data, and labelled as such. A spec sheet is not hands-on experience and I will not pretend it is.
How the site makes money
Affiliate links, and later perhaps display ads. No lead generation, no newsletter, no paid placement, no sponsored reviews. Every score is computed from cited data before any link is attached, so a payout can never move a number. Which programmes are active right now is always current on the disclosure page; that page is the authoritative version of this story.
Impressum
LaptopCompass is a trade name of ClockwiseIT, a sole proprietorship (eenmanszaak) registered in the Netherlands. If a page is wrong, I wrote it and I will fix it.
- Trade name
- LaptopCompass (handelsnaam van ClockwiseIT)
- Legal form
- Eenmanszaak (sole proprietorship)
- KvK
- 71214364
- Registered
- Netherlands
- hello@laptopcompass.com