For desktop? Probably. For laptop, linux support can be awful, because manufacturers keep introducing hardware that don’t support standard drivers. Webcam? How about an IPU6 that needs kernel modules just to be detected and then special calibration files just so the image is not a stripey corrupted mess… How about no on-board sound because screw you I guess. How about a non standard USB controller so that you cannot even communicate over your USB ethernet dongle when the wifi is once again some special sauce non standard shit…
These are Dell and Lenovo Yoga machines at the University I work at. Some are absolute garbage where the USB is always powered and will drain the battery when the computer is turned off and no BIOS setting will disable this.
We are now looking into Tuxedo and Framework…
PS.: even windows has issues with these, where you have no touchpad and no USB anything (mouse, keyboard) until you somehow install a driver…
PS.: even windows has issues with these, where you have no touchpad and no USB anything (mouse, keyboard) until you somehow install a driver…
It’s very much not meant for user OS install at all. The ‘correct’ way to install an OS on those is to flash it onto the SSD before installing the SSD.
And if the drive goes bad or the data gets corrupted and it needs to be reinstalled? Well fuck you – throw it away and buy a new one. If these laptop manufacturers had their way, nothing would be user-repairable and ‘throw it away and buy a new one’ would be the solution to every possible problem.
For desktop? Probably. For laptop, linux support can be awful, because manufacturers keep introducing hardware that don’t support standard drivers. Webcam? How about an IPU6 that needs kernel modules just to be detected and then special calibration files just so the image is not a stripey corrupted mess… How about no on-board sound because screw you I guess. How about a non standard USB controller so that you cannot even communicate over your USB ethernet dongle when the wifi is once again some special sauce non standard shit…
These are Dell and Lenovo Yoga machines at the University I work at. Some are absolute garbage where the USB is always powered and will drain the battery when the computer is turned off and no BIOS setting will disable this.
We are now looking into Tuxedo and Framework…
PS.: even windows has issues with these, where you have no touchpad and no USB anything (mouse, keyboard) until you somehow install a driver…
Yeah laptop hardware is garbage to deal with
It’s very much not meant for user OS install at all. The ‘correct’ way to install an OS on those is to flash it onto the SSD before installing the SSD.
And if the drive goes bad or the data gets corrupted and it needs to be reinstalled? Well fuck you – throw it away and buy a new one. If these laptop manufacturers had their way, nothing would be user-repairable and ‘throw it away and buy a new one’ would be the solution to every possible problem.