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Re:Ask HN: Is an ARM-based laptop a viable development machi... by philliphaydon on Saturday November 14, 2020 @04:53AM (#25091248)
If you get an XPS with windows. It’s a pain to install linux because of some weird Intel thing needing to be disabled first. Caused me a lot of headache. Runs great once you get past that tho.

Lenovo on the other hand. Just works.

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Re:Ask HN: Is an ARM-based laptop a viable development machi... by robert_foss on Saturday November 14, 2020 @04:54AM (#25091253)
Personally I'm on my 3rd XPS running Linux, and the install has mostly been smooth sailing.
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Re:Ask HN: Is an ARM-based laptop a viable development machi... by heelix on Saturday November 14, 2020 @10:34AM (#25092883)
The BIOS is configured for RAID rather than AHCI/SATA by default. Bumped into that with mine. It was fairly easy to modify Windows to not use the RAID version so I could boot into Linux on one drive and boot into Windows on the other. Suspect I could get Centos to go the RAID route, but did not want to mess with it.
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Re:Ask HN: Is an ARM-based laptop a viable development machi... by kinix on Saturday November 14, 2020 @04:58AM (#25091266)
I had one of the first XPSs, and it was a 'mare for the first few months - I'm kinda surprised it's still that much of an issue to be honest.
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Re:Ask HN: Is an ARM-based laptop a viable development machi... by blackrock on Saturday November 14, 2020 @05:28AM (#25091384)
I love my Lenovo T4xx. Linux was a breeze to install.

I just wish the Fn and Ctrl keys were swapped. Although you can change it in the bios.

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Re:Ask HN: Is an ARM-based laptop a viable development machi... by SweetestRug on Saturday November 14, 2020 @07:30AM (#25091912)
I did this and it was smooth sailing. All I had to do was set the hard drives from RAID to ACHI in the BIOS.
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Re:Ask HN: Is an ARM-based laptop a viable development machi... by philliphaydon on Saturday November 14, 2020 @07:50AM (#25092010)
I should have mentioned I was trying to dual boot too. And Windows doesn’t like the flat out change. You need to change the settings in windows before changing the bios. Something I didn’t need to do on my Lenovo.
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