11/15/2023 0 Comments Thinkpad x1 carbon gen 10![]() ![]() I would definitely not buy a linux machine from them without checking the Arch wiki first.Įx: The current developer machine shipping from Dells link is here: (9320) Fixable, and Dell actually did provide drivers in a deb for Ubuntu, but it took them a little while.īut generally speaking, yes you can call - they will provide resources and point you at fixes they've implemented, but it's still a bit of a grab bag. Great little machine, but a couple of known issues around wifi/bluetooth and the fingerprint reader. I used an XPS 13 developer edition for quite a while. Yes, as long as you've purchased a machine that they offer with a linux distro pre-installed, or that they've certified (ex: Dell only ships Ubuntu but will certify hardware for Redhat compatibility). I've done two of them myself since I found the other ones I've found to be so useful: ![]() * Lastly, for Linux laptop compatibility in particular, I've found there a lot of documents in single developer/user's wikis, or as Github repos/gists writing up their experiences. While it's not the easiest to link to, they allow you to add comparisons to arbitrary laptop models for any of their numerical results. Important things like screen quality (brightness, color gamut, PWM flicker), speaker quality (I find the percentile vs other laptops most useful there), and power usage (most importantly IMO, their WiFi v1.3 rundown test). While there are usually some more in-depth reviews that might give additional color on a laptop, the Notebookcheck reviews cover most of the important points with some very objective, and more importantly, standardized tests, whose results can be compared against their gigantic database of other reviews. * IMO Notebookcheck is the best general/objective review site for laptops. ![]() * Oftentimes doing a search for the exact model and adding "linux bug" is the best way to get any bug reports that are in kernel, distro, or package trackers. * Reddit is actually one of the best general sources for people talking about Linux compatibility issues, especially as most laptop OEMs don't have dedicated Linux support forums (only Framework and Lenovo do, AFAIK), so searching for " linux report/review/compatibility/issues reddit" is usually a good sanity check as well. It's easy to search for your exact model #/SKU and get a very detailed compatibility list, eg: * - this is where uploaded `hw-probe` results are collected and shared. I'd definitely second the Arch and Gentoo Wikis as excellent community maintained resources. I'm always surprised on r/linuxhardware (another good resource) the number of people that ask questions without doing basic searches online. ![]()
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