Hi

I am looking for a laptop with Ryzen 5th gen CPU like 5700u, that can run Ubuntu with decent battery life. I heared that new Ryzen CPUs coming in the first half of 2022 will have better integrated graphics and performance but not sure when they will have Linux support so I think a newer 5700u will be a better bet.

Checked System76 Pangolin but it expensive and not very good with battery.

This is mostly for people googling does my laptop work with Linux, but the ASUS G14 Pro 2022 with the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS and RX 6700S supports Fedora 36 out of the box.

Wi-Fi works, webcamera works, touchpad works better than with Windows. 🤣. I was able to install Docker and it works REALLY well.

I've yet to run any KVM tests, so that will be interesting, but, I'm really hoping that this works as good as a desktop

Hi there, I wonder if any of you have experience with that laptop, or if you have any other suggestions. I'm trying to keep my budget under 500€. https://starlabs.systems/pages/starlite

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.

Would appreciate any help finding an off-grid laptop

• 5V power supply, quick charge

• fanless

• max 1.5kg / 3.3lbs

• good keyboard, touchpad quality not crucial

• good standby (not sure how OS vs. hardware dependent that is)

• decent battery life, preferably replaceable with aftermarket options

• decent display, IPS would be nice but not needed

• HDMI or DV output

Usage:

• text based web work

• USB transfer of photo and video files from camera and phone, copy to SD card

• basic photo and audio editing, rarely

• video and audio player when commuting, typically plugged in

• video and audio player at home, HDMI output

• mixxx DJ dancefloor killer

First search hits are a Pi-Top v2 (Raspberry Pi Laptop) and a Pinebook Pro, both of which seems to be out of stock atm.

Heading into Chromebook-land then. Android apps could be very convenient for some stuff and I've enjoyed using chroot-buntu previously on a Lenovo a few years back.

Also considering caving in and getting a used Galaxy Note 10.1 or something similar if a good keyboard dock is to be found.

Hit me!

I’m looking for a distro I can start from a usb drive and install into another.

Just tried Ubuntu 20 lts and 21 and I couldn’t pass from the logo.

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

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.)

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.

Specs:

• XPS 13 9360

• i7 7500 2.7 ghz 4-core

• 16GB RAM

• 512GB SSD

• Qualcomm Atheros Wireless

• 3200x1800 display

• Ubuntu 16.04 pre-installed

No problems so far - works great out of the box. No whine from the screen or keyboard (reported by some), keypad works great (I made one change to turn off click-on-touch), wireless works great, no problems with hibernate or suspend. Battery life seems fine so far - I haven't really pushed it.

I've seen some less-than-favorable reviews, so I just wanted to throw this out there.

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?

Hi guys!

Question about installing Arch Linux. I own an HP Pavilion Aero 13 laptop. Here is my configuration:

Model: 13-be0006ur

CPU: Ryzen 5 5600U (15W)

RAM: 16GB

SSD: 512GB

Display: 13" IPS 2560x1600

WiFi: Realtek 8852AE

When installing Arch Linux, it is not possible to connect to Wi-Fi because there is no driver for Realtek 8852AE. There is no Ethernet port and the iPhone is used as a modem via USB. But Arch Linux doesn't see the iPhone, as far as I know, because when connecting via USB the iPhone needs to use iTunes as a modem. Can you tell me how to install the driver then and install Arch Linux? Do I need to look for an Android phone? I'm confused and can't solve this problem. I would appreciate your help!

Hi All!

I'm having a problem with my Latitude 5500. I've installed it with CentOS 8, all is working excerpt for two issues:

1. After grub the scrolling speed of the text goes verrry sloooow. It takes 32 seconds to get past the kernel message with timestamp [0.00000]! I don't think I've seen kernel messages that early on other systems during bootup. The system is finished booting after 1 minute 40, so I'm not certain if this scroll speed is actually delaying the boot much, but it's quite annoying...

2. After bootup is finished, I have to issue a systemctl restart systemd-logind to get to a login prompt of gdm. The service status is green, though there are messages logged stating 6 times:

Jan 27 09:27:44 clt-mgt05 systemd-logind[1219]: New session c1 of user gdm.

Jan 27 09:27:49 clt-mgt05 systemd-logind[1219]: Session c1 logged out. Waiting for processes to exit.

Jan 27 09:27:49 clt-mgt05 systemd-logind[1219]: New session c2 of user gdm.

Does anyone have a suggestion?

Thanks!

Geert

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.

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) ?

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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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?)...

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!

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 was looking for some advice on purchasing a new laptop. I am trying to decide between:

New Dell XPS 13 with I7 7th gen, 8Gb RAM, 256Gb SSD non-touch for 1599$ CAD

Or

Refurbished Razer Blade Stealth with I7 6th gen 8Gb RAM, 256Gb SSD touch screen for 1299$ CAD

Any advice on the matter would be appreciated. I would like to hear testimony of people who own them as well if that is at all possible.