Gregory's Server@steinarb sure, there are more hardware, but drivers will be an issue as long as it's not a first class priority by vendors. I just bought two devices in order to improve the driver situation after being shamed when it didn't work just plugging in. This was during a job interview which made it especially bad. Drivers keep being an achilles heel.
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@steinarb 6.11.6 and 6.11.7 don't work for me. The wifi won't wake from sleep with a timeout message. Every device under the sun has Windows support, but Linux support is an afterthought if it exists at all. Many times it's reverse engineered by volunteers. At least drivers are one of my biggest issues. All too easy getting a device without working drivers.  @simendsjo Yeah, maybe I was just lucky. But it has been two years now of trouble free operation, with daily use, where everything I've tried on the laptop works: video, sound, wifi, bluetooth (MX master mouse in daily usage, Jabra Solemate mini almost daily, streaming music). So I have basically forgotten that issues might exist... sorry about that! ("works on my machine!", as the saying goes...) @steinarb my Lenovo laptops has also been working great, but it has all been Intel wireless, and I have never tested all hardware features (e.g. infrared camera or fingerprint reader.) But I agree it's a lot better than it used to be. I think my latest issue was DisplayLink in a meeting room, which only has vendor drivers packaged for Ubuntu. So I need to add support for my distro. |
@simendsjo Here is my reason for saying drivers isn't a problem.
Except for having to get a backported kernel when I bought this laptop in 2022 to get support for the WLAN/bluetooth chip, everything has worked flawlessly, with daily suspend/resume and reboots mainly on kernel changes (and the odd libc and similar change, but they usually come at the same time).
So my own experience colors my opinions....
https://steinar.bang.priv.no/2022/07/31/installing-debian-11-bullseye-using-pxe-boot-on-an-acer-aspire-5-a515-45-laptop/
(currently running 12.8 "bookworm")
@simendsjo Here is my reason for saying drivers isn't a problem.
Except for having to get a backported kernel when I bought this laptop in 2022 to get support for the WLAN/bluetooth chip, everything has worked flawlessly, with daily suspend/resume and reboots mainly on kernel changes (and the odd libc and similar change, but they usually come at the same time).