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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. teawre+ug[view] [source] 2022-09-24 18:54:15
>>london+E5
I've been running manjaro on a dell xps 15 2-in-1 without issue for about 3 or 4 years.

The only oddity is that it has the intel kbl-g gpu, so sometimes you have to manually choose which gpu to use if the app is badly behaving and you don't want it to suck your battery dry in an hour.

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