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It's an MSI GE66, about a year old. Great laptop for graphics and dev work, although the fan is nasty under heavy load. > Since you've had difficulty troublesh
by esperent 4y ago
It's an MSI GE66, about a year old. Great laptop for graphics and dev work, although the fan is nasty under heavy load.
> Since you've had difficulty troubleshooting Windows drivers
Apologies, I was unclear here. I have (almost) zero driver trouble under Windows. I just have Microsoft troubles. I'm afraid of switching those for driver troubles under Linux.
I do have a good amount of experience with Linux so it's not that I'm afraid I won't be able to handle it. I'm afraid it'll become a massive time sink.
- brudgers 4y agoI have a Dell Precision that was available with Linux from Dell but didn’t have it because it was a scratch and dent I purchased as spec’d directly from Dell. I ran Ubuntu on it for five years until I switched to Windows at the beginning of this year. It has atypical laptop hardware. Like your machine which is why I mention it. Things have broken several times under Linux. The touchpad driver was broken for about 9 months when the Alps driver was deprecated. The WiFi once briefly. Nvidia drivers briefly at least twice…or always if I consider Prime support. Same for Hdpi - 4K was one reason I hopped on the particular deal - except that it’s brokenness goes down to the application-library-compile level under X…never mind Wayland. Note that’s without the compatibility and configuration complexity of WINE or the TTfM of Arch. And again this is a laptop that had factory Linux available and technical support suitable for enterprise customers, not a gaming laptop. I don’t have anything against Linux. I just wasn’t gaining anything from dying on Ubuntu Hill.