Intel patches new ME vulnerabilities

Re:Intel patches new ME vulnerabilities by pjmlp on Monday July 23, 2018 @05:12PM (#17596050)

I know Linux since Slackware 2.0, so I am quite used to these issues regarding graphics cards, including the fun days of manually writing my own xorg.conf file.

Eventually one gets fed up and wants the laptop just to work.

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Re:Intel patches new ME vulnerabilities by deno on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @04:57AM (#17607836)

I remember those times as well, but my recent experiences with new hardware on Linux have been rather positive.

As long as you avoid hostile vendors like Realtek and NVIDIA everything should just work.

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Re:Intel patches new ME vulnerabilities by michaelmrose on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @04:33AM (#17599117)

Tried buying ones that come with linux? Alternatively stuff known to work well with linux like thinkpads?

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Re:Intel patches new ME vulnerabilities by pjmlp on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @07:33AM (#17608447)

This laptop came with Linux that was the point of buying in first place.

Asus used to sell their netbooks with Ubuntu pre-installed on the German Amazon store.

It already had a phase where I couldn't use WiFi for a couple of months as Ubuntu decided to replace the binary driver for an open source implementation partially working, and then fix issues as they came.

Now it is the same story regarding ATI drivers.

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