Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring

Re:Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring by paulcarroty on Saturday September 24, 2022 @04:39PM (#32966363)

Disagree, used to use Dell Inspiron and some cheap HPs, found nothing extraordinary.

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Re:Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring by bayindirh on Saturday September 24, 2022 @04:48PM (#32966429)

It's more of a chance than the norm, then.

My Dad's Lenovo Ideapad comes with a soft-raid of two SSDs for example, since a faster and twice bigger would be much more pricey.

Also, I've seen non-standard GPUs, tons of broken BIOS tables, vendor specific devices with weird quirks and whatnot over the years.

Maybe these things still happen but newer kernels know how to deal with this better, I don't know.

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Re:Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring by dapids on Saturday September 24, 2022 @05:17PM (#32966595)

Cheap HPs are not elitebooks for one, and two an inspiron is not an XPS. I've used both elitebook and XPS with zero issues.

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Re:Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring by doetoe on Sunday September 25, 2022 @12:50PM (#32973221)

I think the point was that even these cheaper consumer laptops worked fine with Linux

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Re:Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring by paulcarroty on Sunday September 25, 2022 @04:39PM (#32975951)

Exactly.

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