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Re:Ask HN: Linux laptop on a budget? by jason_slack on Friday February 23, 2018 @04:38PM (#16449849)
What distro are you using? Did it work out of the box or did you have to tweak conf files to get it working?
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Re:Ask HN: Linux laptop on a budget? by infiniteseeker on Friday February 23, 2018 @04:52PM (#16449947)
Ubuntu, but I have tried Tumbleweed, Arch and OpenBSD on these laptops and no issues whatsoever. Works OOTB for Ubuntu. For OpenbSD, I had to dl the "non-free" firmware for Wifi but em0 (ethernet) works out of the box
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Re:Ask HN: Linux laptop on a budget? by jason_slack on Sunday February 25, 2018 @06:44PM (#16461921)
I tried 16.04.3 and it failed and after I did get it to install nothing worked.

I then tried 17.10.1 and it worked! All the hardware works even the backlit keyboard!

Thank you so much for letting me know you had success!

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