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[lexluthermiester]

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Right, ok. Joke's on us.. Actually that was a good joke!

 

[remixedcat]

new dell latitude 5400 all niced up!

 

[Super Firm Tofu]

New lappy - who dis?

Buying fairly new hardware can be a little risky with Linux. Ended up with Pop! for now until I have time to see if I can get Debian configured. Pop! enabled both the integrated and discrete GPUs right out of the box, with a choice of which to use when right-clicking an app to run.

Zen3+ APU (7735HS) and RDNA3 GPU (RX 7700S)

 

[remixedcat]

wait? you got linux working decent on an asus laptop??? how? Lots of ppl have trouble w that brand lately for thier newest stuff....

 

[wNotyarD]

Pop! enabled both the integrated and discrete GPUs right out of the box, with a choice of which to use when right-clicking an app to run.

That's actually amazing!
I know for a fact Optimus is still a major PITA (primerun %command% being my greatest ally on the Steam parameters line), between the UHD630 and GTX1050 on my laptop.

 

[remixedcat]

That's actually amazing!
I know for a fact Optimus is still a major PITA (primerun %command% being my greatest ally on the Steam parameters line), between the UHD630 and GTX1050 on my laptop.

I never got that working right on my Lenovo w530 my desktop environment freaks out every time I switch and one time I had to recover using timeshift and command line cuz the desktop environment would refuse to load. Not fun lenovo!!! ugh!

 

[Ferrum Master]

New lappy - who dis?

Buying fairly new hardware can be a little risky with Linux. Ended up with Pop! for now until I have time to see if I can get Debian configured. Pop! enabled both the integrated and discrete GPUs right out of the box, with a choice of which to use when right-clicking an app to run.

Zen3+ APU (7735HS) and RDNA3 GPU (RX 7700S)

Hop to kernel 6.7. RDNA3 GPU OC is back.

 

[SomeOne99h]

Buying fairly new hardware can be a little risky with Linux. Ended up with Pop! for now until I have time to see if I can get Debian configured. Pop! enabled both the integrated and discrete GPUs right out of the box, with a choice of which to use when right-clicking an app to run.

Zen3+ APU (7735HS) and RDNA3 GPU (RX 7700S)

wait? you got linux working decent on an asus laptop??? how? Lots of ppl have trouble w that brand lately for thier newest stuff....

That's actually amazing!
I know for a fact Optimus is still a major PITA (primerun %command% being my greatest ally on the Steam parameters line), between the UHD630 and GTX1050 on my laptop.

When the first AMD Threadripper CPUs announced and released, Pop!_OS has them working right after short time while other Linux distributions had issues and then System76 (owner of Pop!_OS) shared their fix to other Linux distributions.
System76 builds and sells PCs with Linux in mind. That is why they are good with hardware. Any dude who tried the OS, had their rare hardware just works right away without any fiddling. This is the really special thing about this OS is excellent hardware support.

 

[remixedcat]

When the first AMD Threadripper CPUs announced and released, Pop!_OS has them working right after short time while other Linux distributions had issues and then System76 (owner of Pop!_OS) shared their fix to other Linux distributions.
System76 builds and sells PCs with Linux in mind. That is why they are good with hardware. Any dude who tried the OS, had their rare hardware just works right away without any fiddling. This is the really special thing about this OS is excellent hardware support.

cool.. sucks that system 76 laptops are soooo pricey!

 

[Super Firm Tofu]

wait? you got linux working decent on an asus laptop??? how? Lots of ppl have trouble w that brand lately for thier newest stuff....

I wish I could claim some mad linux skillz, but I just went through a few distros until I found one where everything worked in a live environment. Other were close, some had stupid things like the keyboard not working, but Pop! was a go right away. I'm pretty impressed considering this has a Realtek WiFi card. I assumed I'd probably need to swap it out for an Intel, but got lucky.

That's actually amazing!
I know for a fact Optimus is still a major PITA (primerun %command% being my greatest ally on the Steam parameters line), between the UHD630 and GTX1050 on my laptop.

I didn't expect to work at all. I'm really excited that it worked out of the box. Possibly because it's all AMD so no nvidia driver package to mess with. I thought I'd have to use something like corectrl to manage, but so far so good. I assumed I might need to use Windows until the hardware was supported.

Hop to kernel 6.7. RDNA3 GPU OC is back.

Definitely plan to check out the latest kernel when I have some time. This week is crazy at work and I'm traveling this weekend.

When the first AMD Threadripper CPUs announced and released, Pop!_OS has them working right after short time while other Linux distributions had issues and then System76 (owner of Pop!_OS) shared their fix to other Linux distributions.
System76 builds and sells PCs with Linux in mind. That is why they are good with hardware. Any dude who tried the OS, had their rare hardware just works right away without any fiddling. This is the really special thing about this OS is excellent hardware support.

I really wanted to buy a System76 laptop, but this was such a good deal considering the specs I couldn't pass it up. I am thinking about one of their keyboards though. Just really expensive.

 

[gurusmi]

... I wish I could claim some mad linux skillz, but I just went through a few distros until ...

You can take a PC/Notebook and try Linux From Scratch and after that Beyond Linux From Scratch. There you learn a llot about linux and all the programs behind.

 

[remixedcat]

what's wierd is the realtek wifi on this inspiron is working fine... it's only a 1x1 card tho but it's good enough for now..

 

[Super Firm Tofu]

You can take a PC/Notebook and try Linux From Scratch and after that Beyond Linux From Scratch. There you learn a llot about linux and all the programs behind.

Oh, I'm familiar with the process. Gentoo back in the early 2000's. Ain't nobody got time for that.

 

[johnspack]

Haven't prettied it up yet, but here's Noble or 24.04 on raw, it's stable enough now. Looks like it will ship with kernel 6.6... was hoping for 6.7:

 

[remixedcat]

omg you got a threadripper! I wants one!

 

[lexluthermiester]

omg you got a threadripper! I wants one!

While the 1920X is a nice model, the 2920X is the better buy, for the money, currently.

 

[johnspack]

Don't want one too bad... twitchy, expensive, and even more expensive to upgrade. I might get a 1950x... but a 2990wx is more than a new cpu... but yes it's bloody fun to run!
And yes I just checked... the 2920x is the best price for first gen... but I'll need at least a 16 core for my next purchase....

 

[remixedcat]

Don't want one too bad... twitchy, expensive, and even more expensive to upgrade. I might get a 1950x... but a 2990wx is more than a new cpu... but yes it's bloody fun to run!
And yes I just checked... the 2920x is the best price for first gen... but I'll need at least a 16 core for my next purchase....

wonder how those would do for music production....

 

[Ja.KooLit]

wait? you got linux working decent on an asus laptop??? how? Lots of ppl have trouble w that brand lately for thier newest stuff....

When I bought my Asus Zypherus G15 3 yrs ago, I put Arch on it.. no issues

 

[Solaris17]

I wish I could claim some mad linux skillz, but I just went through a few distros until I found one where everything worked in a live environment.

I found there are a lot of problems with slow distros like Ubuntu or worse mint or pop. On ultra new stuff. I think a lot of that will go away since we are at a turning point where new kernels are getting put into distros live and install environments.

I usually find a way, external wifi or Ethernet if I run into these problems and install the newest kernel and these problems tend to go away.

rolling releases like suse (my favorite) fedora or arch are less prone to these problems.

lets all remember this is a screen shot thread though. I love convos like this especially for this section if you want to move on to compatibly let’s create a new thread so we can help others since they wouldn’t look in a screen shot thread for that info….nor should they I don’t want to have to boot anyone but we are steering off course more and more frequently now.

 

[remixedcat]

When I bought my Asus Zypherus G15 3 yrs ago, I put Arch on it.. no issues

nice

 

[Super Firm Tofu]

I don’t want to have to boot anyone but we are steering off course more and more frequently now

No need. I’ll self remove. @W1zzard Please delete my account. Thanks.

 

[remixedcat]

No need. I’ll self remove. @W1zzard Please delete my account. Thanks.

Wait don't go

 

[Solaris17]

No need. I’ll self remove. @W1zzard Please delete my account. Thanks.

Oh sorry buddy. I just put that in because I was posting. It was directed at the thread. The only part directed at you was the first half. With that said, I stand by what I said.

 

[SchumannFrequency]

This is the RAM usage of OpenBSD after the PC has been up for almost two hours.
I find it quite impressive considering it is not a bare bones setup.
It is a fully functional 'desktop setup' with bspwm, Polybar, sxhkd, nitrogen and picom all running at that time.

It is also interesting how the system thinks about security, it makes the security of other systems feel primitive.