I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

Re:I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too by anonymousDan on Sunday January 11, 2026 @04:45PM (#46580531)

How do you check the hardware is compatible in practice? Is there some reliable resource for doing this?

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Re:I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too by tombert on Sunday January 11, 2026 @04:47PM (#46580544)

As a rule AMD stuff is pretty safe, but to answer your question, I generally go look at kernel sources, or sometimes I go and see if I can find the model in the NixOS Github and see how many workarounds that they have to do to get it working.

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Re:I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too by ta8903 on Monday January 12, 2026 @03:50AM (#46585778)

https://linux-hardware.org/ is useful for this.

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Re:I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too by ZebraOtoko on Monday January 12, 2026 @05:16AM (#46586427)

I've found generally that business-grade hardware has better Linux support. So for laptops, for instance, Lenovo Thinkpad and Dell Latitude laptops work better than some bargain-basement consumer-grade laptop.

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Re:I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too by GoblinSlayer on Monday January 12, 2026 @08:06AM (#46587920)

I bought a cheap laptop with preinstalled linux, it happened to be compatible with linux.

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