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You cannot run whatever distro you want on a System76 if you want ME disabled. > You must run Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Pop!_OS 17.10, or a
by erikbye 9y ago
You cannot run whatever distro you want on a System76 if you want ME disabled.
> You must run Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Pop!_OS 17.10, or an Ubuntu derivative and have the System76 driver installed to receive the latest firmware and disabled ME on laptops
- Drdrdrq 9y agoDoes anyone know why that is?
- erikbye 9y agoI'm not sure their motives for this choice, as their means of disabling as much of ME as possible is ME cleaner, which is not tied to distros. I don't see why you can't attempt to do it manually yourself, without the aid of their driver and firmware update tool. Except that you might forfeit any warranties/support. System76, can you clarify? Sadly it's standard to only see official support for Ubuntu or RHEL in the Linux world. Not that I don't understand, it's all very fragmented, and that creates a lot of work as to support multiple distros. People are working on remedies, though.
- ForHackernews 9y agoMy guess is just a QA burden: they probably test the firmware cleaner utility on those operating systems, and they don't have the resources to test and certify the firmware tool on every conceivable distro. Maybe it will run fine on Fedora, but if it bricks your laptop, they don't want to get blamed.