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I've been considering getting this. How's the Linux experience?
by stonecharioteer 6y ago
I've been considering getting this. How's the Linux experience?
- rwmj 6y agoFedora 32 works out of the box, and all the features I care about work fine. As the other commenter says, the 5.7.8 kernel in Fedora 32 is "old", and you may get better performance or features by upgrading only the kernel to the Rawhide version, currently 5.8.0RC5. TBH I upgraded the kernel but didn't notice any differences, but apparently it makes a difference for battery life. The one annoying thing (this may be UK-specific, but it is very very annoying) is the backslash/pipe symbols do not have their own key, but are overloaded on the "L" key. I still haven't worked out how to make the "L" key produce those symbols. I bet that designers at HP thought "who uses these weird symbols anyway, let's save a key". There are workarounds using Alt-Gr, but obviously as those keys are very common for programmers that's a very poor design decision.