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Sorry you've been unlucky, but I've bought brand new Dell and Lenovo laptops and slapped Fedora on them and they just worked with no driver BS involved. Literal
by ISV_Damocles 4y ago
Sorry you've been unlucky, but I've bought brand new Dell and Lenovo laptops and slapped Fedora on them and they just worked with no driver BS involved. Literally did this just a few months ago.
Ubuntu/Debian tend to take longer to support brand new hardware because they're more conservative with kernel updates, but you can also just use the System76 PPA to get a super-recent kernel on Ubuntu. But faster-paced or rolling distros like Fedora or Manjaro are best for that kind of thing.
I haven't had a single GPU-related issue, AMD or nVidia, for about a decade, if you're willing to go with non-free drivers.
- bmitc 4y agoI think your experience is the outlier and not that the other person was "unlucky". Screen sharing is not working on a "mobile desktop" Thinkpad laptop with Red Hat Linux, a paid Linux distribution no less, freshly installed due to poor communication between several screen sharing apps and drivers or just poor drivers. Outlook is not available for Linux. And the least keeps on going. > I haven't had a single GPU-related issue, AMD or nVidia, for about a decade While I might be off-base, I would wager that you have probably forgotten and not noticed the amount of times you have debugged these things and other driver-related issues.
- ISV_Damocles 4y agoNo, I hate debugging on personal machines. I really haven't had GPU driver issues for 10 years on any of my Linux machines, and it's a pretty eclectic mix of Ubuntu, Fedora, Manjaro, and now one Steam Deck on SteamOS.