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0 pointstombert22d ago0 comments

Not with Linux, typically. If you don't have drivers included in the kernel, it requires a lot of effort to get things working. I've done it many times, so now I will generally only buy laptops that have decent Linux support. [1]

I've had the laptop for about two years now and it still runs just as well as the day I bought it. I'm very happy with it.

[1] No I will not stick with Windows. Please feel free to read through my comment history to see why, but TL;DR I just don't like it.

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zdragnar22d ago

I've had linux on every laptop I've owned for years, and I haven't really had a problem with any of them running linux, except for display port support on a dell xps.

Aside from that one dell laptop, though, I generally avoid HP and dell entirely, so perhaps that's why.

tombertOP22d ago

In 2013 I bought a laptop that I kept five years that had an Nvidia Optimus.

I never really figured out how to get the discrete card working consistently, and since then I haven't bought a laptop with an Nvidia card.

I've had issues with wifi cards and sound drivers and the like as well, though it's going a lot better now than it was a decade ago.

zdragnar21d ago

Weird. I must have uncommonly good fortune, as I don't think I've had Wi-Fi or sound issues for longer than that. I remember when I first tried out swaywm and having some sound issues because I also started moving to pipewore from pulseaudio, but nothing from an out of the box install of a decent distro.

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