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1. london+E5[view] [source] 2022-09-24 17:38:33
>>tonyst+(OP)
I have the reverse...

Unless you have a thinkpad or some other popular hardware, you'll find Linux barely works at all out of the box, and even with hours of fiddling around, you'll still have to live without some features.

For example, power saving features, sleep and hibernate, screen brightness controls, fingerprint readers, keyboard hotkeys and backlights, etc. rarely work. Prepare for broken external hdmi ports or USB stuck at USB 2.0 speeds. Have fun with the fan stuck on either max or zero, or the CPU stuck at the lowest clock speed.

There are still lots of things you have to go hunting for the right old firmware version for.

I think Linux is only great if you have whatever hardware distro developers have, because that will be all that works out of the box.

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2. Mikeb8+C8[view] [source] 2022-09-24 17:56:12
>>london+E5
From everything I've read, ThinkPads (IBM/Red Hat devs seem to use them), Acers (have pretty standard parts, nothing funky), Dells and HPs (both have Linux dev laptops) all seem to run pretty well.

The worst seem to be gaming laptops, non-Lenovo Chinese brands, Asus, etc...

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3. wolfra+bb[view] [source] 2022-09-24 18:14:36
>>Mikeb8+C8
Corroborating this on the asus, I got one back in 2020 when my laptop gave up the ghost. Tried trudging through but I couldn't get comfortable with opensuse, things like on boot the mouse not responding, spontaneously rebooting when I tried to change volume, wifi card being throttled or just useless. All of it failing just enough I never quite trusted it.
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