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The point is if they are offering it preinstalled it means they are putting more effort and support behind making it work well on their hardware. Linux hardwar
by stusmall 7y ago
The point is if they are offering it preinstalled it means they are putting more effort and support behind making it work well on their hardware. Linux hardware support has come a long ways but there are still occasional rough patches. At this point in my life I take zero joy in trouble shooting them so official Linux support is a big deal
- washadjeffmad 7y agoYou don't make Linux work on the hardware at the Desktop level so much as you choose hardware with chipsets that don't flout spec or have else have (open) active support from their vendors. In my experience, very little troubleshooting on Linux is due to Linux being problematic and more oddities and quirks with hardware whose drivers were written only with a particular Windows version in mind. To test, just boot a "problem" distro in a VM. If you don't encounter the same issues, it's the hardware.