Looking for laptop without hybrid Nvidia graphics

Honor MagicBook X16 Plus 2024 (2560x1600 IPS 120Гц) 16", AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS, RAM 32 ГБ, SSD 2048 ГБ, AMD Radeon 780M

Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 Intel Core Ultra 7 155H, RAM 32 ГБ, SSD 1024 ГБ, Intel Arc Graphics

Both are pretty similar, but Honor has better screen and Ryzen isn't as controversial as new Intel processors. Also I've heard that while both amd and Intel have great drivers, Intel still has the edge here and it's drivers work better, is that true? I plan to use Fedora

I know this is probably a recurring question, but I would like to have an exchange of opinions regarding the purchase of a laptop.

Initially I was attracted by the Framework 13 and its modularity and expandability. Then, once the wave of compulsive purchasing had passed, I realized that the price was too high compared to the value. In particular, I compared it with the Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 15 G9 AMD which has a newer and more performing Ryzen 7 8845HS on board than the 7840U of the Framework. I found it unjustified that there was even a €300 difference between the two (the Framework is more expensive), with the same configuration.

So now I am leaning towards the Tuxedo. I wanted to have the opinion of the community, considering that I use the laptop for 90% of the time connected to 1/2 external monitors and its main use is development. Oh, obviously Linux.

Tried looking it up on linux-hardware.org and they didn't list this computer. I'm intending to replace the HDD in it with an SSD later but can't be bothered to buy Windows for it, so I wanted to take the opportunity to try out Bazzite on it instead.

I have not had great experiences with Linux compatibility on previous machines, with problems involving wireless drivers, touch drivers, and audio drivers that I couldn't manage to fix. In the case nobody else knows about this device in regards to how Linux friendly it is, how far would I need to get to actually start troubleshooting? Would I be able to find out what problems it has from loading up the USB before I even permanently install the OS?

In previous cases I installed Linux over a computer that already had Windows on it, which actually caused differences in behavior between when it was loaded from USB versus when it was installed. Something about the leftover drivers with WIndows made it work better than afterwards when Linux wiped them to use its own alone. But in this case the SSD I'm going to be using shouldn't have an operating system on it to begin with to be misleading, right?

Anyone tried Linux on it? Does everything work as intended? Touchscreen, pen and so on?

My use case is development, MERN stack, game development (2D), multiple dockers etc

Should i go for a refurbished T480 for around $250 usd and then spend around $100-$150 more for replacing battery/ram/ssd and likely deal with lots of issues?? (As they're likely to be really bad ones, i know these sellers swap out the real parts)

Or should i go for a E14 with AMD Ryzen™ 3 7335U, 16gb ram, 512gb SSD for around $750 usd?

I just received my new computer and immediately tested Linux on it. The vast majority of the hardware works out of the box, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, touchpad, keyboard backlight, audio, touchscreen, and graphics card. However, it cannot wake up after going into sleep mode. The indicator light on the power button keeps flashing, but neither pressing the keyboard nor the power button brings it back to life. I tried sudo rtcwake -m mem -s 20, but it didn’t wake up after 20 seconds.

Here’s the dmesg: https://pastebin.com/JPRwJsxj

Thanks in advance!

Hey guys!

I'm considering buying the ThinkPad P14s Gen 5 with Intel:

CPU: Intel Core Ultra 7 165H
RAM: 32GB DDR5 5600MHz
Disk: 1TB SSD M.2 PCIe NVMe
Screen: 14.5" WQXGA (2560x1600) IPS 350nits
Graphics Card: NVIDIA RTX 500 Ada Generation
Audio: Realtek ALC3287
Other: LAN 1 GbE, Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.3

Does anyone here have this model and use it with Linux? If so, which distribution? Were there any issues installing Linux? Any problems with specific components (like the camera, fingerprint reader, etc.)?

Or can you suggest any alternatives in a similar budget? Ideally, I’m looking for something with a 14"-15" screen, 32GB RAM, Intel Meteor Lake CPU (though I think the Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS could work as well), and decent battery life, up to 1.7kg in weight, and preferably without a numpad. This laptop will be for daily work: programming in go/python/c++, docker.

Thanks!

Hello, I have always used wired earbuds. I live in Europe, and my budget is 100 EUR. I'm considering trying a pair of wireless earbuds or earphones, mainly for home use and commuting. I need good audio quality and A battery life of 6–7 hours or more would be ideal. While ANC is appreciated, it’s not a priority if it exceeds my budget. I’m not a fan of eartips, but I’ve noticed that most wireless options include them, so I’m open to giving them another try. I’m unsure what to buy—what would you recommend?

I will use them mainly with my iPhone but also with my computer (Linux)

Hello,

So I want to get a laptop so I can run Linux on it. I already run it on my PC, but I will need the laptop in the near future and I'm pretty sure a ThinkPad would be the best option.

I will be using the laptop for mostly programming, browsing, and chatting. So no gaming, except for maybe Minecraft and some very non-demanding games every once in a while.

Thinking of running Fedora, so the question is, are used ThinkPads good enough or is a new ThinkPad better? Considering me and my brother have had a history of two used laptops being bad I am a bit hesitant (they were not ThinkPads).

Thanks for the help!

I'm looking to upgrade from my old laptop, a 2018 HP omen 17 GTX 1070, to a MSI Raider 18 HX 18" RTX 4090.

I've been on endeavourOS for about 2 years now after switching from windows and never looked back, it's been great, some tinkering but nothing I can't handle. I'm not a Linux pro and I don't have a deep understanding of Linux, however I can get buy and I use the terminal for most things that benefit from it.

I don't know anything about MSI or it's software that comes preinstalled. The command center in the omen I had was lacking in support for my specific model, just let me choose quiet, standard, or turbo fan speed, which I never used.

Any information on this would be appreciated as it's 3k.

The link to what I'm thinking of purchasing

Thanks!

Dear nerds I use fedora for the most part and I built a system a while back, currently I have an a 3700x and 16GB ram and a 3060, I mainly use my machine for ML but will eventually get into DL as well (IK it's a subset but it's relevant) and I will need decent VM support as a lot of software I use needs windows

I face a dilemma, where I'm conflicted between upgrading my full system Vs just upgrading the RAM, GPU and change the mobo for two slot one and use the 3060 as a pass through device for my VMs

What would you do in this situation, my current machine works fine but I'm starting to scale up with ML projects and can see the use for a better GPU

Money isn't an issue but I'm not keen to really splurge as I intend to move and will be buying better hardware there but that's several weeks away

Lenovo Ideapad pro 5 r7 8845HS oled 120Hz

I am new to linux, so any help will be beneficial. Is there any other stable distro for the same ? I just want to do simple programming and no gaming

ps : I tried to install lmde 6, but it is not recognizing my wifi, touchpad and keyboard

Sometimes, when my laptop is asleep (closed lid), and I plug in the USB C cabel of my Dell Dock (Dell WD19S 130W), it only shows a black screen with some message like `i2c_hid_acpi i2c-DLL0945:00: ic2_hid_get_input: incomplete report`. At this point, there doesn't seem to be a way to do anything with the computer other than hard resetting it using the power button (power button on the dock works, too).

The docking station has a HDMI display connected to it.

Plugging in the dock with the screen when the laptop is awake never causes problems.

Does anyone here know what the problem might be? Maybe even a workaround to resolve it, or at least a bug tracker where I can report this?

Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
Dell Inc. XPS 15 9510
Linux 6.8.0-47-generic

Thanks in advance!

We are a small non profit company, i myself use an 2020 Clevo/Tuxedo laptop running on Fedora, for daily drive and work, since 2 years now.

Considering buying new laptop for my colleagues. My main concern is battery life as i experience something around 3-4 hours, videoconferencing, and basic browsing web, writing and stuff. Some graphism editing but nothing complicated.

Colleagues are actually on old macbook air, so need a good quality hardware feeling or closely. The Framework 13 have all my attention, but not sure about battery life on Linux. Don't know about Tuxedo.

Any tips or experience about all this ?

Hi. I encountered this problem recently during my installation of Fedora Silverblue 39/40 and other distro in my Asus Vivobook 14 (Intel 12th Gen) and in my another laptop (Acer Aspire 3). If you happen to experience this, this post hopefully might help.

Turns out that you can't install bootloader (the installer will cite "this is most likely a firmware bug"), if the VMD is enabled. If you disabled it already and the problem persists, try disabling secure boot. In my case, the problem persisted despite of the previous two solution. I managed to fix the problem by loading the optimized defaults (or reset the BIOS/UEFI settings), then go to secure boot section, disable fast boot, disable secure boot, and then reset it to factory keys. Finally, disable VMD. This will permit the installer to properly install the bootloader. After the installation, update your firmware with fwupdmgr then enable fast boot, secure boot and revert the "reset to factory keys", finally enable VMD.

Hope this helps. Cheers.

The Strix Point driver has already been upstreamed. I am wondering if it has good Linux support.

Today I got a HP OmniBook Ultra 14-fd0013dx and installed openSUSE Tumbleweed (kernel 6.11.5-1-default) on it, mainly because the XPS 14 while not defective was an overpriced clunky POS and Intel chips suck.

The OmniBook uses a MediaTek MT7925 for Wi-Fi and this appears to be a Wi-Fi 7 chip.

The problem is even on a Wi-Fi 7 network with 6GHz bands, the speeds are usually 100-300 Mbps. On a M3 Pro MacBook Pro running macOS Sequoia I got Gigabit speeds. Is there a way to get full 6E/7 Wi-Fi with Gigabit/multi-Gigabit speeds on the OmniBook/MT7925?

My Wi-Fi is a UniFi setup with two Ubiquiti U7 Pro APs. This is the only Wi-Fi 7 AP I have, as I'm selling my HPE Instant On APs. The issue isn't going to bother me too much to return this, but it'd be nice to have Gigabit Wi-Fi.

I'm looking to get a new laptop, and I can get an HP 17-cp3000 for a good price. The question is: Will Linux run on it? And how difficult will it be to get it to run?

I installed Linux on my old HP laptop, and it was a headache due to some stupid bootloader stuff. I did get it working finally, but it was enough to make me swear off HP laptops. However, these are modern laptops with the chipset that I want in the price range I'm looking for.

Does anybody have any insight into this?

Hi all

I'm after a powerful laptop for software development. I won't be doing any gaming on it, but will be doing some occasional photo and video editing (Davici Resolve).

I like Thinkpad keyboards. I don't care about Trackpads as I always prefer a mouse.

A larger screen (with crisp fonts) is nice for coding. RAM wise, I'd like 64GB. CPU, anything that is very powerful and fast.

GPU: I'd like to avoid nvidia if I can, cause I know it doesn't work well with Wayland.

What are my options? I browsed Thinkpad Lenovos and from what I can see, almost all have nvidia graphics!

Budget is whatever can get me the above spec.

Battery life is nice if I can get it, but I know that Linux and laptop battery life don't go well together. Plus, this is a machine that I'll be using mostly in Cafes and on travel, so I'll always have a place to plug the laptop in.

I'll be installing Arch Linux on it and the JetBrains suite of software.

I use Docker a lot too.

Hi all, I have a question about Linux on tablets: there are very few tablets on which linux can be installed. But starlab sells a tablet that can run various Linux distros. What makes starlab different from other tablet providers?

Hi everybody, As the title says, I'm looking for a laptop for my studies. I'm pretty sure I'll be either in coding or in networks or both. I have a budget between 800 and 1500€ (I live in France). I need to be able to do a dual boot in case there's a software required by my studies that is only on windows. I read that Thinkpads are undoubtedly my best choice but I don't really know the different series. I've seen the Thinkpad E14 gen 6 (AMD) that seems perfect to me but I need to know if it's a great choice. I also wanna know if there's other brands or models that are fine. I want my laptop to last at least 5 years. I'm not in a hurry and I can wait till September. Would it be interesting for me to wait ? I'm not sure since news models can take time to be supported by linux. I'm looking for a r7/i7 and at least 16go of RAM (32 would be better for the price). Thanks for your help.

I am a Security Engineer by profession. I use Debian Linux on my desktop. I am considering buying a laptop so I can source audit C/C++ code on-the-go. I will build from source a *lot*--though not as much as a Gentoo user ;).

Which laptops would you recommend?

Bringing over here to save someone else the hair-pulling I did all day. I'm furious at Thinkpad (supposedly the safe option) for pushing this bug, and failing to document the fixes. It seems to be specific to BIOS version 1.19 aka R2CET37W.

Here's the best discussion of the issue and solutions (that it's for a Windows install is irrelevant): https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/1f8cgc8/thinkpad_e16_gen_1_not_recognising_bootable_usb/

Another discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/1e2ky3j/usb_devices_not_working_in_bios_after_update_e16/

This generally excellent site gave it a thumbs-up, perhaps the users happened to use a USB 3.0: https://linux-hardware.org/?id=bios:lenovo-r1met49w-1-19-06-27-2022

Be safe out there, friends!

Looking to upgrade from my super chunky HP laptop to something smaller that I wouldn't need a massive backpack to hold.

My biggest priority is BATTERY LIFE. Considering the most demanding game I'd want to play is Titanfall 2 or Palworld (and even then, I'll probably get a Steam Deck for them) and I'm not deep enough into programming where I'm compiling Firefox-size projects, I do not care if my laptop is capable of computing the largest prime number in the universe within 5 seconds or if it has a dedicated GPU. I just want something I can charge and fuggedaboud. If it wasn't for my budget, I'd probably wait until the start of 2025 and buy an ARM MacBook once graphics mature with Asahi.

I'm also looking for something with a full-AMD chipset. I don't have the time to get my performance cut in half with a microcode update because the brand new Intel chip ends up being compromisable by someone sneezing at the right angle.

I do not mind if something is used or refurbished as long it's not older than 2020, because battery life would probably be significantly degraded. In fact, I welcome it.

I would also like something with USB-C PD charging so I don't have to lug around an extra power brick for just one device.

I'm also not going to purchase this right away - probably sometime in November - so I'll probably be keeping an eye out for Black Friday deals as well and I would also appreciate general product line recommendations.

Thanks in advance for any advice :)

Linux Noob Here.

So, years ago I ran Linux on an RCA Cambio W101 V2. I got Linux installed and running, but its touchscreen and gyro sensor wouldn't work correctly because they were unique for this tablet, and had specially built drivers that only existed for Windows 10.

To my knowledge, the RCA Cambio is the exception, not the rule.

However, is there a way to check for sure if an x86 tablet has compatible drivers for Linux without first needing to buy said tablet?

I don't want to mistakenly buy a tablet that will have a touchscreen and gyro sensor that won't work on Linux.

Just bought a Trust GXT 836 EVOCX and the backlights don't work and I have no idea why. Everything else, even the extra keys on top and the menu button fn lock work without a problem.

Tried brightnessctl and xset commands, but nothing. I'm on manjaro.

Hi there guys,

I'm in limbo in the last week or so, please shed some light on me.

I'm looking to buy a new laptop. my idea was to have Ubuntu 24.04 and a dual boot with Windows.
It will mostly be used for work purposes (on linux) and here and there to play LoL (on Windows).

I've looked at so many laptops lately that I'm getting mentally overwhelmed, please help me.

• ASUS TUF Gaming A14 (2024) FA401 (32gb ram minimum)
• ASUS Zenbook S 16 (UM5606) (32gb ram minimum)
• or which one would you suggest I should look into?

I've spent the last 10+ years probably, on a MacBook, so I'm used to having a good machine in terms of body.

PS: I'm looking for a laptop that is well-supported with Ubuntu 24.04 (as far as I'm aware the zenbook s16 2024 is not well supported because of sound card problems that might get fixed with the kernel 6.12 coming out in the next few months. but I kept it in the list)

Thanks so much in advance.

I've seen older posts about the same topic and I know it will work I just have some additional questions. Primary use case is to use it as mainly test daily driver to (hopefully) convince myself to fully switch and commit to linux (will most likely go with Linux Mint for this "trial") without disrupting all my Windows stuff for now that are all internal on my main machine. If and when I'm happy to make the switch full time, will wipe all my windows drives and switch fully.

I have a spare 256GB WD SN

• Would the enclosure hardware matter/affect performance? I have narrowed down 3 products that are easily accessible to me, i'll put them below and what would be the best choice among them given my use case?
  • Ugreen M.2 NVME/SSD Enclosure
  • Orico M2PV-C3
  • Orico AXM2S-G2
• For people who have tried in the past, is there a noticeable difference running the enclosure through a USB 2 or USB 3 port on your PC? My current desktop PC doesn't have a USB-C port so I am bound to only using USB 3.0 (front of the case) or USB 2.0 (back of the case)

So I just plugged my 3rd party battery that i bought. It says that I need to fully charge both batteries and then deplete it. I noticed that when i booted it up I saw the screen glitching and then chinese characters in the bottom center of the screen and thn blacked out. I rebooted it up and everything is fine. I asked the seller what just happened and he says it needs a technician. I'm like sure but now I'm using my T480 now and its working fine and the battery is detected. It just scared the living shit out of me cuz it looked like it was infected.

I'm asking here since everything happened while I was in the grub boot menu.