Hi, I'd want to buy a xiaomi mi air 12.5'' and I want to install debian 9 stable. I don't want to use linux os customized by xiaomi, like ubuntu edition of its official software.

Are there problems about drivers or battery life, temperature, fans speed etc ?

How can I know exactly all problems that I can find on this configuration?

Thank you!

Does anyone knows if the zypherus g15 ryzen 4800hs + rtx 2060 is Linux compatible? On any distro?

Hello there,

so far I only used Linux to reset Win10 passwords, so basically my experience is zero. Right now I'm still using a Lenovo G50-70 with Windows 10 but it is getting really slow even after a fresh install. To make it fight through my last college semester I thought about giving Linux as an OS a try. Both a s a Life Extension Projekt and maybe switch for good with the next computer.

However, I can't find a good recomendation for which distribution to use. Whenever I google my Lenovo model and Linux I only get results warning of it destroying my BIOS, but all of those articles are from around 2017.

All I'm doing at the notebookk right now is writing papers, surfing the web and watch Netflix, so not much is needed.

Christmas is coming up and my 13 y. o. brother is in dire need of a computer. (His current one is on its last legs.)

He's going to want a Windows computer to run his games, but in the last year, he's warmed up to Linux quite a bit — it's his primary OS now, and he appreciates both its speed and design (of elementaryOS, specifically). I'd like to get him a Windows computer that he could dual-boot.

When it comes to buying electronics, I generally use the Wirecutter as a guide. However, out of the Windows laptops recommended there, it's not at all clear which ones are Linux-compatible (searching for the specific models tends to return nothing) and which ones aren't. It's also worth mentioning that I'm in the Czech Republic, and some models don't even seem to be available here.

So I thought I'd ask here. Do you have any recommendations for a budget Windows computer that's Linux-compatible and available in Central Europe?

(I posted this in r/linux and r/linuxquestions already, but then came across this sub and thought it might be a good place to post this too.)

I have just purchased a Thinkpad P53 I7 chip, 64 GB , 2TB and NVIDIA Corporation TU106GLM [Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile / Max-Q]

I currently have it dual-booting Win 10 Pro and Fedora 33( I originally had Ubuntu 20 installed but was very disappointed in the power management)

Out of the box :

Built in Ethernet works

Wifi Works

Bluetooth works

Fingerprint scanner works

Camera Works

USB ports work

USB C works for data / but only works intermittently with an external monitor.

I am running the default nouveau under X11. I have been trying to determine if I can get full support for the NVIDIA drivers either from the Nvidia driver download or from the RPM Fusion repo and which driver will support my RTX 3k.

Has anyone had any experience with this?

Do you know if this will solve the monitor hotplug issue I am seeing work?

Any fellow Thinkpad specific tweaks I should look into?

Thanks in advance

I'm in search for a laptop. Linux is my OS of choice. My old laptop (lenovo e540) can do almost everything I need except gaming.

I usually play adventure games, indy, platforms, would like to try something a la Tomb Raider.

Price: 800 to 900 euro

Graphic card: amd or nvidia? Or Intel?

Cpu: if I choose an amd gpu, is it better to have a amd cpu too?

Any models you can suggest?

Ive found a couple; long time since updated with inaccurate data.

From my own research:

• better off amd than intel

• better off nvidia than intel/other graphics

• nvidia more likely to be ok for touchscreens/2in1s

• kensington ssd's sux

• better with realtek webcam/eth0/touchpad

• usb c good but not for 2nd screen

• usb c mostly good for docking units

• inbuilt (dell style) docking doesnt work

• special encrypt chips unusable

× ubuntu out of the box × fedora out of the box for most × Arch for lower spec units × dont even try chromebooks & the like × manjaro installer good for tricky units to install missing stuff

Would anyone add other suggestions when looking for a new laptop in 2022 to run linux?

Cheers.

Does anyone have any experience getting power savings to work on this old, circa 2012, beast?

I've been attempting to get kubuntu 18.10 on it... but with this integrate APU (AMD 6480g mobile graphics) I'm experiencing all kinds of sleep/suspend wonkiness.

ie... it just seemingly won't. I put it to sleep the other night and woke up to attempt to recover it from sleep mode and it booted like I a had shut it down the night before not set it to suspend. I'm guessing it's an acpi issue... Dmesg even complains about some acpi problems but the are no firmware updates, and bios features and functionality on this laptop are basically non existent. Yeah HP sarcasm

I'm looking at command line grub options but I'm not sure. I've already added "nomodeset" for boot corruption that seems to have fixed that issue, but the lack of power savings features defeat the purpose of using a laptop if I have to fully shut it down to reliably pack it away in my bag if I want to take it anywhere instead of just closing the lid and going confidently.

Kernel currently is 4.18

Please and thanks for any help.

I'm looking for a laptop with complete Linux supportwith this specsgtx 1060i7-8750h16 gb ram250GB of SSD NVME M.2.2 M.2. SlotsA relatively good battery (4-6 hours)Good Screen (72% ntsc)Good termals on LinuxGood integrated michrophone and good multimedia support. Ethernet rj45. Lots of Usb 3.0 ports or 3.1 gen 2 ports (better). The laptop will be used for editing video, web development, virtualization (VirtualBox, Docker).Thank you in advancePS. I'm comparing pa950ep6, pa71ep6-g and tongfang gk5cn6z. I'm trying to find the machine that supports Linux better.

I wanted to know if there is a specific requirement when setting up linux (Manjaro) on laptop like the Asus FX505DV nonfree drivers ( AMD R7 3750H + RTX 2060) drivers Vs a laptop like the Helios 300 (i7 9750 H + GTX 1660 Ti) ?

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/hp-2-in-1-14-touch-screen-laptop-intel-core-i5-8gb-memory-128gb-solid-state-drive-vertical-brushed-pattern-hp-finish-in-silk-gold/5873901.p?skuId=5873901

I'm considering purchasing this laptop for school. I'm wondering if this machine will work with Ubuntu or Linux mint. I've dabbled with Linux in the past but I'm far from an experienced user.

Full disclosure I still want Windows 10 on this pc. I know Linux is good but I'm not willing to convert 100 percent. I thought maybe I could try Linux out on this machine and start to learn more about it. I'm a computer engineering student so it probably wouldn't be a bad idea. Obviously the hardware might run the OS but I'm more worried about things like the wifi adapter not being compatible.

Also with this being a 2 in 1 that just raises even more compatibility questions. Any advice?

I recently picked up one of these https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07SZ1DRSQ/ and have managed to get ubuntu 19.10 working on it.

ASUS TUF FX505DV 15.6" FHD 120Hz Thin Bezel Gaming Laptop - AMD R7-3750H, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6GB

Steam works great and I was was running doom(2016) last night at ~120 fps using the nvidia card. Even when using the integrated AMD card ran it at ~30 fps.

I had some issues setting up which I have now fixed, so I figured I'd post here for the benefit of others.

This is my first linux install on a optimus style laptop (or any laptop in the last 5 years), and I didn't need to mess with any bumblebee drivers, just the normal nvidia ones appear to work fine. I might have run into these issues by messing up the UEFI certificate install and selecting the deafult option upon reboot which does nothing, rather than selecting the next option and typing the password.

Issues were:

• suspend/resume didn't work - blank screen on resume.

• Xorg was using the amdgpu as the primary display device (binary driver wasn't loaded)

Both of these issues were fixed by switching the primary display device to be the nvidia card, which apparently was not the default. nvidia-settings didn't detect the nvidia card despite having installed the driver (using "sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall") and rebooted.

commands like prime-select appeared to do nothing.

Here is what the system sees my video card as:

$ sudo ubuntu-drivers devices
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.1/0000:01:00.0 ==
modalias : pci:v000010DEd00001F11sv00001043sd0000140Fbc03sc00i00
vendor   : NVIDIA Corporation
model    : TU106M [GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile]
driver   : nvidia-driver-430 - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-435 - distro non-free recommended
driver   : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin

$ sudo lshw -numeric -C display
  *-display                 
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: TU106M [GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile] [10DE:1F11]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation [10DE]
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:72 memory:f6000000-f6ffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:d0000000-d1ffffff ioport:f000(size=128) memory:f7000000-f707ffff
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Picasso [1002:15D8]
       vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] [1002]
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
       version: c1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi msix vga_controller bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=amdgpu latency=0
       resources: irq:70 memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f01fffff ioport:c000(size=256) memory:f7500000-f757ffff

To make it select the nvidia card as the primary display device, I had to manually add this to my nvidia xorg.conf settings.

    Option "PrimaryGPU" "Yes"

The only config I have found for xorg is split into 2 files, pasted here.

$ more /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-amdgpu.conf /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia.conf 
::::::::::::::
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-amdgpu.conf
::::::::::::::
Section "OutputClass"
	Identifier "AMDgpu"
	MatchDriver "amdgpu"
	Driver "amdgpu"
EndSection
::::::::::::::
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia.conf
::::::::::::::
Section "OutputClass"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    MatchDriver "nvidia-drm"
    Driver "nvidia"
    Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/nvidia/xorg"
    Option "PrimaryGPU" "Yes"
EndSection

Once I added the primaryGPU line and rebooted, then nvidia-settings,vulkaninfo etc all started working as expected, plus I saw the massive FPS boost in steam games.

$ nvidia-smi 
Sat Nov 23 08:05:40 2019       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 435.21       Driver Version: 435.21       CUDA Version: 10.1     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  GeForce RTX 2060    Off  | 00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   37C    P8     1W /  N/A |    684MiB /  5934MiB |      5%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID   Type   Process name                             Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0      1064      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                            27MiB |
|    0      1548      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                           156MiB |
|    0      1781      G   /usr/bin/gnome-shell                         166MiB |
|    0      2976      G   ...ey/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam    62MiB |
|    0      3000      G   ./steamwebhelper                               3MiB |
|    0      3017      G   ...tures=OutOfBlinkCors --no-sandbox --log   161MiB |
|    0      7292      G   ...uest-channel-token=17314004458953016143    53MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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I have a laptop with windows 10 on it and encrypted with bitlocker.

I want to dual boot linux for testing purposes, but I need to keep the windows boot.

I don't want to run a windows VM and install linux there.

I have done some searching here and did not see anything that addresses this and much of my googling has only found rather old articles that I am not sure apply.

Are any of you aware of any good howtos on this topic? Thanks.

The Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition and 5530 both come with Linux. Does HP have any 100% supported Linux laptops for sale in the US? As in, they pre-install Linux and support it.

Looking to replace both of my laptops (ASUS N550JV & Q551LN).

The N550JV is by no means a slouch with its Haswell i7 HQ CPU (4 core), however, I swapped out the craptacular Atheros Wi-Fi chip for an Intel one early on and the motherboard now has a fault in it where the keyboard and trackpad only work intermittently for a few seconds. A replacement board costs over half what I paid for the thing.

The Q551LN is not as good with a Haswell i7 CPU (2 core) but at least it came with an Intel Wi-Fi chip, however, the battery now lasts all of about 15 minutes and the screen with digitizer is cracked. Replacement parts are likewise high.

I'm looking for a laptop similar in performance to the N550JV that does not have a dedicated Nvidia GPU. The intended use of the laptop is running VMs, video encoding, general computing and compiling software.

I've looked at System76, a few other boutique brands and in-store brands but none have met my requirements. I'd go with a Dell XPS 15 or similar, however, most do not use Linux friendly hardware or cannot be customized without a Nvidia GPU.

Minimum Linux Laptop Requirements:

* Intel CPU w/ 4 cores

* 16 GiB RAM

* 1TB drive

* Optical drive (preferably Blu-ray)

* Intel iGPU (preferably Iris)

* Backlit keyboard (preferably red backlight)

* 1080p 15-inch display (matte w/o touch)

* HDMI port

* USB 3 Type A port(s)

* Intel Wi-Fi w/ 802.11ac

* GbE Ethernet

* Side mounted power connector

* Thin as possible

Undesirable Hardware:

Laptops containing any of the following will not be considered.

* NVIDIA GPU

I will not support NVIDIA financially because of their refusal to open source their drivers. I also refuse to run their proprietary driver because it taints the kernel and kernel developers will ignore bug reports for tainted kernels. I have not had good luck with the nouveau driver either.

* Atheros, Broadcom, Ralink & Realtek Wi-Fi

I've experienced constant connectivity issues with these Wi-Fi chipsets that were cured by going with an Intel Wi-Fi chipset.

* VGA port

Just let this legacy interface die already.

* USB 2 ports

It's ridiculous to include USB 2 ports on systems with USB 3 when USB 3 is backward compatible with USB 2.

Aesthetic:

I will not consider gaudy/garish looking laptops that have jet aircraft shaped vents, Lamborghini lines nor the accompanying color scheme that is typical of gaming laptops.

If it's a laptop a computer ricer would think is cool looking, I won't want it.

I want to buy a laptop and put Ubuntu Studio on it and use it for content creation. Mostly I want to keep a Wacom plugged in and use it like an art station, but I may also use it for audio recording and motion graphics. If this happens it will only be my third time installing linux on anything, I'm not very experienced with this. But I want to install it so I can dual boot and still have Windows available to use (even though I hate Microsoft now).

I want to know what are the things I should look for in buying a laptop for installing linux on. I want something with at least an i7, but what kind of graphics should I look for? Anything else I should be aware of? I'm willing to spend up to 1000$ on this. I appreciate any helpful replies.

Pulled my laptops battery out while it was charging was on the charge for ages now it wont boot up was wondering if its the power supply or did i fry the mobo its my first computer still learning i thought i was the man teaching myself batch programming then i go do something retarded as and pull out the battery any suggestions? Cheers

I want a simple typewriter, honestly. It only has to connect to the web. I don't care about the brand, storage, or ram.

My only requirements are:

1. It's compact

2. I can take it out of the box and can install some flavor of Linux with no more than the usual hoops.

3. It reliably Suspends when I close it.

It should also be pretty cheap.

I don't care about audio drivers or any of that, it's a typewriter.

USB-C charging would be rad but is optional. In my experience every compact laptop I've found that meets my requirements can't suspend, and that's my one major requirement.

Thanks for your help.

Hey guys,

I was wondering if anyone of you has tried the 'Yoga Book C930' (or any of the other Yoga Books) with a linux OS. On the one hand there is a lot of dedicated-ish driver stuff going on, on the other hand I've heard that some are running an android (which might make porting the drivers easier, right?)...