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> do Linux laptops just work yet? Linux on laptops is fine nowadays. Recent versions of the kernel vastly improved battery life on Intel. It's much better than
by qalmakka 6y ago
> do Linux laptops just work yet?
Linux on laptops is fine nowadays. Recent versions of the kernel vastly improved battery life on Intel. It's much better than it was 10 years ago.
- abrowne 6y agoAgreed. I only have experience with Intel graphics, but all the recent machines I've installed Ubuntu on have just been install and it works. If you pick a distro that doesn't include non-free drivers/firmware, you might have to do some more work to get wi-fi working.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 6y agoWhat about Nvidia drivers with Wayland? If I remember correctly Nvidia drivers don't work with Wayland and for touch gestures I need Wayland so because of the Nvidia and Wayland mess I can't have touch gestures which seems totally strange that they would be intertwined with touchpad.
- qalmakka 6y agoSadly, Nvidia has shown multiple times to be extremely user hostile and only concerned in keeping its hold on the computing space. There are I think almost no other reasons to refuse to write an open driver except to avoid to expose exactly how CUDA works, I think. AMD's new open source driver is plug and play, and a true joy to use. In general I avoid Nvidia as much as I can, especially on laptops where I honestly don't see the appeal of having a dedicated monster that wrecks your battery every time you power it on. New iGPUs are excellent, especially those from AMD, and for bigger tasks assembling a desktop computer gives you much more processing power for a way lower price.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 6y agoI understand where you are coming from but at the end of the day it works flawlessly on Windows and not on Linux and to the user that's all that matters. I really don't care whose fault it is.