Oh man, I thought I was alone. The other day I installed Win11 on an EliteBook 840 G8, with an 11th gen itel. The VMD thing was off in the BIOS, so the storage

Oh man, I thought I was alone. The other day I installed Win11 on an EliteBook 840 G8, with an 11th gen itel. The VMD thing was off in the BIOS, so the storage was detected, but the touchpad moved a pixel or two and then died. The trackpoint wouldn't work either. I could only install it with an external mouse. After manually going through the pile of random HP drivers, I managed to get everything directly part of the PC working. But at work we have some HP USB-C docks, which have DisplayPort and HDMI pass-through. Neat little boxes. But Windows, for some reason, has me do a ridiculous dance to get 4k@60Hz through DP. I have to plug the screen in HDMI, unplug DP, replug DP, unplug HDMI and it works. If I reboot, I'm back to square one. No such clownshow on Linux, everything just worked out of the box. I also have a cousin of this laptop, an EB845 G8, which is Zen 3 based. On this, I could install Win11, but other than that the out of the box experience was terrible. It needed the AMD graphics drivers to get anything above some absurdly low resolution. And even after installing all the drivers on the HP site, and even using their "driver detection utility" thingy, which reports AOK, the webcam is still not detected and I get random exclamation marks in the device manager. Nothing of the sort in Linux, everything works perfectly. I'm happy to know that HP recommends Windows 11...