A friend of mine is looking for a note-/netbook to do some programming.
It shouldn't be too pricy (up to 500€ I guess)

Any suggestions?

Microsoft Surface Go @ 449 Euro

https://t3n.de/news/...

Honestly, they could spend less money if they want. Personally I use a HP Stream 14 running Ubuntu for most of my coding and general day to day work. As long as it is just coding and web browsing and not Unity/3D stuff.

A lot of the HP range are really good for Software Developers, they have a good range for their cheap options. I would suggest your friend finds something with ~16GB of eMMC (Flash-- Soft Drive)(Faster boot time and more reliable) and probably something big, bigger laptops usually have better keyboards.

@Artemix easy, if you don't have games and are running linux it's fine.

I just checked and looks like I was wrong and actually have 32GB. I have 18GB spare, I'm pretty sure I have some videos downloaded.

Still, it's plenty.

@Artemix

It does me really well and only set me back >$200 (AUD)

Specs:

@Artemix ah, yep; for sure.

I normally keep media type things on an external HDD and music online.

@Artemix ah, as in I use online services (I use Google Play Music). I don't really use media centers. I know a friend who likes Kodi and recommends it.

@Artemix ah ok. Sorry, not knowledgable on media centers.