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@Mux @afewbugs can you buy a new laptop with Linux installed?

22 May at 8:16 | Wall-to-wall | Open on beige.party
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Mux2000
Tats :disability_flag:

@Mux @afewbugs thanks, I'll see what's available on the UK on the list

22 May at 8:29 | Open on beige.party
Laurens 🧢

@Tattooed_Mummy @Mux @afewbugs And even then, installing a main line Linux distro on a device (if you have one) is very doable these days. It's not very different from installing Windows from scratch.

I use Windows 10 Pro on my main PC and Linux Mint on my laptop to experiment with. If everything goes well, I might switch to Mint on my main PC when support for W10 ends in October 2025. I already know I can log into the company network with my Linux machine, so that's not an issue anymore.

22 May at 9:52 | Open on mastodon.social
Robert Kingett backup

@Mux @Tattooed_Mummy @afewbugs I haven’t read the link yet, but one of the main issues I see it’s hardware and compatibility, so is there a computer manufacturer that makes hardware around a specific Linux distro? That way, my non disabled friends won’t need to fight with the OS to try to get it to recognize their hardware?

22 May at 9:54 | Open on tweesecake.social
Mux2000

@weirdwriter
Short answer is yes, long answer is in the link. Dell and Lenovo both make Ubuntu-compatible machines that come with either Windows or Linux pre-installed, and there are many smaller suppliers that build machines specifically to be shipped with either their own flavor of Linux, or one of the bigger distros.
@Tattooed_Mummy @afewbugs

22 May at 9:57 | Open on swingset.social
Bit_form

@weirdwriter @Mux @Tattooed_Mummy @afewbugs for the most part any mainstream piece of hardware will be compatible with Linux, you will mostly have problems with things like proprietary UI software for things like headphones or RGB blinky things.

Then again there are projects like OpenRGB that build libraries for various hardware yo bypass that, but the problem they have is those companies being too tight lipped, and locked down, so those libraries are incomplete.

But unless you're buying some random hardware from the dollar store, a flea market, or online I'd say you're going to be okay.

At worst your mileage may vary. NVIDIA are notorious for their problems with GPU drivers being a problem.l but there is always the last driver to depend on. Keep backups of your system (there are apps and tutorials for that) and you could boot into an older version of your computer and not worry so bad.

@weirdwriter @Mux @Tattooed_Mummy @afewbugs for the most part any mainstream piece of hardware will be compatible with Linux, you will mostly have problems with things like proprietary UI software for things like headphones or RGB blinky things.

Then again there are projects like OpenRGB that build libraries for various hardware yo bypass that, but the problem they have is those companies being too tight lipped, and locked down, so those libraries are incomplete.

22 May at 11:38 | Open on corteximplant.com
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