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> Today, it’s a little unusual for something you buy not to work with Linux Err... no, it's definitely not unusual. I specifically spent a month looking for a
by 0xbadcafebee 11mo ago
> Today, it’s a little unusual for something you buy not to work with Linux
Err... no, it's definitely not unusual. I specifically spent a month looking for a laptop with Linux support just so I didn't have to go through the hell of unsupported hardware, and it's still not fully supported.
- gkhartman 11mo agoIf you don't mind me asking, what did you end up buying, and what was lacking support? I'd expect full support from one of the "Linux first" suppliers like System76.
- pcdoyle 11mo agoI just got a ThinkPad E14 Gen 6 and the only thing I had to fix/install manually was the driver for the fingerprint reader (fprintd). Everything else just worked, including my docking station and ultra wide monitor.
- ghaff 11mo agoIt helps to look for things that have some level of official backing. Dell has some models for Ubuntu and Red Hat uses various ThinkPads for employee Linux laptops. (Lot more Macs as well when I left but still plenty of ThinkPads that are overwhelmingly Linux.)
- cabirum 11mo agoMIPI camera on my 3 year old Thinkpad still does not work
- whatever1 11mo agoNot even high resolution screens work properly yet. Wayland has done some progress, but still half of my applications look like sh when I use fractional scaling. Linux is great if all you need is a terminal. Once you need a peripheral, then good luck, literally.
- ghqqwwee 11mo agoThere’s no OS that doesn’t have problems with wireless headsets in Teams. Bluetooth and sound stacks is a badly/barely working combination everywhere. Hibernation is usually the test that fails the sound stacks everywhere.
- dahcryn 11mo agoliterally 0 issues on my macbook It has different issues, but wireless headsets nor hibernation are among them
- ThePowerOfFuet 11mo ago>Wayland has done some progress, but still half of my applications look like sh when I use fractional scaling. Do they look like shell, or like shit? You can use grownup words here.
- ErroneousBosh 11mo ago> Linux is great if all you need is a terminal. Once you need a peripheral, then good luck, literally. Just wait until you try this new Windows thing. Zero hardware support for anything.
- roryrjb 11mo agoIf I install Ubuntu 25.10, I can't get camera effects (blurred background and so on) to work in Meet because hardware compositing (or something, I'm not entirely clear on the details[0][1]) doesn't work properly on the open Nvidia driver on Wayland. Wait I thought this was all supposed to be the future? 0. https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/644 https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/644 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1due6ni/hardware_acceleration_in_electron_apps_on_nvidia/ https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1due6ni/hardware...
- p_l 11mo agoIt's a recurring bug in chrome
- notadev 11mo agoBeen running Fedora on Dell XPS 13 for a couple years with zero problems.
- zpr515 11mo agoSame. And then I upgraded to the new Dell 14 Pro Premium, where webcam does not work (as for any IPU7 laptop for that matter). The rest is fine though, but still annoying.
- graemep 11mo agoWhy did you just not buy a laptop from a supplier that preinstalled Linux?
- 0xbadcafebee 11mo agoI did. Still issues.
- Mountain_Skies 11mo agoLots of things work out of the box, but yes, it's still far from being the default. Kensington is releasing an update to its Expert Mouse trackball. The MSRP looks to be USD$150, so not an inexpensive accessory. It supports Windows and Mac but has no Linux support. No doubt in time there will be community supported projects to give it functionality on Linux close to, but not entirely like, what it has on the other two OSes.
- billy99k 11mo agoI now just use Linux in the WSL. I get Linux with a superior GUI.