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Exactly! For example, Skylake support is not mature enough in Linux atm.

by matzipan 10y ago

kuschku 10y ago
Can you give an example of issues? I’m running on a 6700 here with ARCH.
- mehrzad 10y ago
  Here is an explation by an FSF board member. https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html
  - kuschku 10y ago
    Ah okay, the power savings issues. Basic "just run code" stuff seems to be working well enough, and on a desktop which always runs at max in my case it doesn’t need to support power savings modes either.
SwellJoe 10y ago
I think it's gotten pretty good in the past few months. As I mentioned, I had problems when I first installed Linux and it took longer than it historically has, but it's mostly been resolved with kernel and other updates. I can't think of any major issues; the 4k support in Linux is a bit quirky (but it's a bit quirky under Windows 10, as well), and so I've found myself fiddling more than I'd like on that front. But, there have been no showstoppers, even though my laptop has very new components on all fronts.
- matzipan 10y ago
  I've had similar issues with Haswell and the Intel 7260 wifi card when it came out. It was fixed, but it took over a year after it was relesed :(
spoiler 10y ago
Skylake support isn't mature enough in Windows either, though. However, I have two devices with a Skylake processor and neither have on Linux (as of recently, there were some minor ones with bad power states on cores). One of them dualboots Windows, and windows has some random weird issues with Skylake and BSODs randomly (but rarely). Sometimes it "wakes up" into BSOD.
- matzipan 10y ago
  I presume you know about Matthew Garett already? http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html
skriticos2 10y ago
I'm writing this from a Kaby Lake (7th gen) I5 running Fedora 24 and it shipped with Ubuntu (Dell XPS). It does require the newest packages but I don't see any major issues. My Skylake (6th gen) NUC I5 works well with Fedora 24 too. Mind to elaborate what specific problems you have with them?
- matzipan 10y ago
  It's been linked many times around here: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html I'm still seeing powersaving issues even on Haswell. I believe basic support for Skylake only shipped in Ubuntu LTS only recently, too.

Exactly! For example, Skylake support is not mature enough in Linux atm.

kuschku 10y ago

Can you give an example of issues? I’m running on a 6700 here with ARCH.

mehrzad 10y ago
Here is an explation by an FSF board member. https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html
- kuschku 10y ago
  Ah okay, the power savings issues. Basic "just run code" stuff seems to be working well enough, and on a desktop which always runs at max in my case it doesn’t need to support power savings modes either.

SwellJoe 10y ago

I think it's gotten pretty good in the past few months. As I mentioned, I had problems when I first installed Linux and it took longer than it historically has, but it's mostly been resolved with kernel and other updates. I can't think of any major issues; the 4k support in Linux is a bit quirky (but it's a bit quirky under Windows 10, as well), and so I've found myself fiddling more than I'd like on that front. But, there have been no showstoppers, even though my laptop has very new components on all fronts.

matzipan 10y ago
I've had similar issues with Haswell and the Intel 7260 wifi card when it came out. It was fixed, but it took over a year after it was relesed :(

spoiler 10y ago

Skylake support isn't mature enough in Windows either, though. However, I have two devices with a Skylake processor and neither have on Linux (as of recently, there were some minor ones with bad power states on cores). One of them dualboots Windows, and windows has some random weird issues with Skylake and BSODs randomly (but rarely). Sometimes it "wakes up" into BSOD.

matzipan 10y ago
I presume you know about Matthew Garett already? http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html

skriticos2 10y ago

I'm writing this from a Kaby Lake (7th gen) I5 running Fedora 24 and it shipped with Ubuntu (Dell XPS). It does require the newest packages but I don't see any major issues. My Skylake (6th gen) NUC I5 works well with Fedora 24 too. Mind to elaborate what specific problems you have with them?

matzipan 10y ago
It's been linked many times around here: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html I'm still seeing powersaving issues even on Haswell. I believe basic support for Skylake only shipped in Ubuntu LTS only recently, too.