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Well, how did it go for you to try and run MacOS on non-Apple hardware?
Maybe, sure you get a better experience with hardware supported by Linux. But that's a lot of bias in your opinion.
I run Gnome based distros on Thinkpads and Dell XPSs and they are the breeze to setup and use. Nvidia drivers are always a concern, apart from that in all ways superior to Windows OSs on these same laptops. Personally i find myself more productive with my Linix workstation but the M1 Mac I use for official work is also quite good.
I've had no problems with Nvidia drivers. Running an RTX 3090, doing inferences on stable diffusion and can also fire up steam and play elden ring online Though, you do need to know how to use a computer to set things up properly.
Thanks for that, I'll make a note to how to use a computer.
Meanwhile this is Linus Torvalds opinion on Nvidia https://www.phoronix.com/news/MTEyMTc
Nvidia driver issues is a public, well-known challenge when it comes to Linux.
I have tried Linux a few times over the years. One test was for almost 2 weeks on vacation, in a developing country, where it wasn't safe to be walking around with a MacBook. Another was for a few days as a Linux home theater. After struggling for hours with the sound drivers I gave up. I was frustrated with the amount of trouble shooting involved with Linux. That combined with preferring the OS has kept me on MacBooks for the past decade+.
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What Laptop is this? I never had an issue with the external outputs on any laptop I owned (and I've been running Linux since the 90s). I also don't know anyone who had these issues. The main issues I had were typically docking stations and suspend (but that has been super stable for my last 3 laptops).
This was a long time ago, but I had an HP Envy 14-1000. It had an Intel iGPU with a separate AMD card. It was a muxed setup. The screen was switched back and forth between GPUs and one would power off as needed (assuming everything went well). The HDMI port was only connected to the discrete GPU. T here was no way to get video out on the Intel card. By default, Linux would power on both, but use the Intel. This was w…
The "black screen for a couple seconds" thing is still there, you just don't notice it, and once a game has "started" the discrete GPU, you can seamlessly switch back and forth.
some people are mentioning that "i can't believe it took 10 years for this to get fixed" - however back in the late 90s this exact scenario was the most common power gaming setup, with 3dfx cards you'd have 3 cards, two 3d cards with SLI, and a 2D card, usually an intel. The same black screen for a couple seconds, and switching between the desktop and a game had the potential to break things.
The "automatic" switching between igpu and discrete was managed on windows before 2011, because i had a laptop with that setup in 2011 and it would detect 3d applications and use the discrete for that, or you could force one gpu or the other, if you wanted.
Yeah, no. Maybe with old laptops, but newer laptops still have their fair share of issues. When I bought my thinkpad A485 kernels wouldn't boot without additional parameters, the graphics would freeze at times and cause a hardlock, sleep and hibernation have been fixed and broken again intermittently over several kernel versions, the wifi card's AP mode started causing segfaults in kernel 5.2 due to the driver's rewr…
My main issue with my current laptop is that the synopsis touchpads connect over i2c, and there has been a lot of ongoing work in the kernel that keeps requiring me to change my kernel config (PINCTRL_AMD needing to be selected for the 5.18 to 5.19 kernel update). My last laptop (an AMD version of the HP Envy 13) was also rough at the beginning. A BIOS update updated the AMD GPU firmware or microcode or something and…
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I had a Framework and really liked it. Unfortunately the components just degraded really quickly for me, and now can't work but 20 minutes at a time until it freezes completely. Swapped out for a Thinkpad last week. Even swapped out the Framework mainboard after a long back and forth with support. Just some poor battery unloading or similar causing shorts. I was very close to committing my company to using them until…
I'd be running a RAM test. Try out Memtest86 - I think it's also usually an option in the boot menu on Ubuntu live-DVDs. Let it run overnight, I've had crashes like that before where the RAM only starts failing after a few hours of memtesting.
I guess next step would be Memtest! Thanks for the reminder.
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This sounds sensible until you realize that "use the computer" on windows means to use it in the extremely restrictive way that microsoft has blessed.
What restrictions? You don't have the OS source code, but you can write device drivers, and you can use the computer any way you want to. I don't like Windows, but that statement seems incorrect.
Try to uninstall Edge. Try to disable ALL of the tracking. Try to disable updates. Try to install it from scratch onto a computer without creating a Microsoft account. Try to remove all of the non-windows mandatory apps without a 3rd party software or a cheat code to run in powershell that you got from some website somewhere.
Windows is user-hostile because in order for it to maintain its business dominance it HAS to treat all of its users as if they are naturally stupid and technically challenged in order to ensure that the most people possible can use their software so that the most businesses will buy their software since their employees can use it.
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Out of curiosity, what laptop? My samples in the last 6 years are: - Thinkpad Carbon X1 14" (i7-5600u). Everything worked out of the box with Arch Linux at the time. Best experience I've ever had. - HP Envy 13z (R5 2500u) everything works today but the out of the box experience was very poor. Windows update installed an APU microcode update that broke the Linux AMDGPU driver and had to run an -rc kernel for awhile. T…
Lenovo Thinkbook 14 G2 (Ryzen 7 4700U), old laptop was Dell Latitude 7xx0 (or something, don't remember exact model), with Intel i5-5300U CPU, Linux worked perfectly on that machine.
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Hello! I have been using PopOS which is a derivative of Ubuntu that comes with Nvidia drivers baked in. Setup on every XPS since 2018 (I buy a new one every year), has been about 20 minutes. Dell devices have excellent Linux support. Battery is a problem, I can get 5-7 hours in PopOS vs. 5-9 hours in Windows, depending on what I'm working on by using $ powertop --auto-tune and $ tlp start. Disabling touchscreen, and…
> every XPS since 2018 (I buy a new one every year) Haha, nice - I imagine it's satisfying to have a reliable and reproducible setup. Just curious, do you sell the used ones, or give them away..?