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I bought my laptop in September, popped out the HD and swapped in an SSD, and installed Linux Mint. No hassle, everything except my secondary videocard worked o
by sspiff 14y ago
I bought my laptop in September, popped out the HD and swapped in an SSD, and installed Linux Mint. No hassle, everything except my secondary videocard worked out of the box.
Following a few straightforward and well-documented steps, the second video card worked as well. Haven't had to change anything since, and I haven't experienced any breakage.
The wasted time and hacks that are required to get and keep a laptop running Linux have plummeted over the past 3 years, and your argument is rapidly losing its value. To me, it has reached the point of being irrelevant.
- foz 14y agoCan I ask what laptop you got? I'm seriously thinking of coming back to Linux if I can get something that "just works".
- sspiff 14y agoSorry for the delayed reply, the laptop I got is a Sony Vaio S15. And I did turn off EFI and enabled legacy BIOS in the menu, since I found EFI implementations to be severely bugged in a lot of cases, and I'd rather just avoid them until they become more reliable.
- foz 14y agoHey, thanks for the reply! I'll check out the S15.