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My experience the last few years has been that Linux works good enough on most laptops but that there are some rough edges. Everything works, but the laptop wi
by alexanderchr 10y ago
My experience the last few years has been that Linux works good enough on most laptops but that there are some rough edges. Everything works, but the laptop will only go to sleep 50% of the times you close the lid or the display brightness will automatically drop to 10% when you leave the laptop for 2 minutes and not go back when you start using it again or the wifi will drop for half a minute every 30 minutes.
Nothing dealbreaking really, just annoying. But I don't experience these kind of things when using the OS the laptops was shipped with (OSX/Windows) and would love to see more Linux certified hardware like Dell's XPS.
- eth0up 10y agoRunning Debian Unstable on a 2008 Macbook 4,1 and it's working quite well. The GPT partition was a bit tricky, but after that all has gone well but the camera, which doesn't work without proprietary firmware from yonder the repos. It's pretty cool to see an 8-9 year-old laptop with good battery life and reasonable performance. First time I ever fussed with a Mac and I'm glad I did. Also, I totally nixed the Mac OS partitions, for single boot.