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i bought a laptop from a linux-first company. a laptop designed for linux, with custom hardware and OS and all. i feel very miserable using it. my solace is tha

i bought a laptop from a linux-first company. a laptop designed for linux, with custom hardware and OS and all. i feel very miserable using it. my solace is that it is not my main device. on this very day, i had to disable tap-to-click on the trackpad. so no, comments like the above are true. i would not recommend a linux laptop to anyone. the used Thinkpad and Dell folks are the exceptions, not the norm.

cookiengineer 4y ago
Maybe you have issues with the synaptics driver? In case you do, I wrote an in-depth configuration guide for it a while ago [1]. Maybe this helps? [1] https://cookie.engineer/weblog/articles/synaptics-touchpad-on-linux.html https://cookie.engineer/weblog/articles/synaptics-touchpad-o...
- eitland 4y ago
  Added to my pinboard.in (For everyone who thinks this is because Linux has much problems: I had no serious problems with the touchpad in my first 20 years but I hear it is a thing so I expect to see it sooner or later ;-)
bscphil 4y ago
Shrug the last laptop we purchased was a boring Dell Inspiron. Wiped Windows and put Arch Linux on it the day we got it without even checking any compatibility stuff. Everything worked out of the box, nothing has ever needed to be configured or crashed. This is 11th gen Intel, nothing old.
egeozcan 4y ago
I got a windows laptop from my employer. In one week, sound stopped working. I had to follow the instructions here to fix it: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkCentre-A-E-M-S-Series/Fix-for-Missing-Intel-High-Definition-DSP-Driver-on-ThinkCentre-Desktop/m-p/5012225 https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkCentre-A-E-M-S-Series/Fix-... Then it stopped working on nearly every Windows Update after. I'm not going to argue that under Linux there would be less problems or something crazy like that, but Windows has its own share of problems as well.

cookiengineer 4y ago

Maybe you have issues with the synaptics driver? In case you do, I wrote an in-depth configuration guide for it a while ago [1]. Maybe this helps? [1] https://cookie.engineer/weblog/articles/synaptics-touchpad-on-linux.html https://cookie.engineer/weblog/articles/synaptics-touchpad-o...

eitland 4y ago
Added to my pinboard.in (For everyone who thinks this is because Linux has much problems: I had no serious problems with the touchpad in my first 20 years but I hear it is a thing so I expect to see it sooner or later ;-)

bscphil 4y ago

Shrug the last laptop we purchased was a boring Dell Inspiron. Wiped Windows and put Arch Linux on it the day we got it without even checking any compatibility stuff. Everything worked out of the box, nothing has ever needed to be configured or crashed. This is 11th gen Intel, nothing old.

egeozcan 4y ago

I got a windows laptop from my employer. In one week, sound stopped working. I had to follow the instructions here to fix it: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkCentre-A-E-M-S-Series/Fix-for-Missing-Intel-High-Definition-DSP-Driver-on-ThinkCentre-Desktop/m-p/5012225 https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkCentre-A-E-M-S-Series/Fix-... Then it stopped working on nearly every Windows Update after. I'm not going to argue that under Linux there would be less problems or something crazy like that, but Windows has its own share of problems as well.