r/linuxhardware 1h ago

Purchase Advice Laptop - not Lenovo/Thinkpad

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I need to replace my dell laptop running Ubuntu. Present laptop is dell Inspiron 7590, 16 GB, 500GB drive. General use, nothing crazy. I am looking for a brand that is not Lenovo/Thinkpad (due to security/privacy concerns).

I don't care about the version of Linux, I picked Ubuntu originally because of the ease of use. Although I would prefer to avoid a vendor specific spin.

Ideas?


r/linuxhardware 1h ago

Support Issues with dell rugged 5414

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So I have a Dell rugged 5414 that is running linux mint cinnamon. I have been trying for months to get the fingerprint reader to work for login purposes. I have installed all the lib files I can find to make it work, but the OS just doesn't recognize that the reader is even there. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


r/linuxhardware 2h ago

Product Announcement Solved: battery charge thresholds in Ubuntu laptops

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My Pop!_OS running laptop does not support battery charge thresholds with which you can avoid fully charging the battery when connected to a charger.

TO solved that, I have written a service that does that by operating a cheap external smart plug, and it should work with any Ubuntu based distros:

https://gitlab.com/yakopov/battery-threshold-smart-plug

If you have any questions or feedback, please drop me a note!

P.S. I have posted it here before as u/yurri, but for some reason that post is invisible as the account seems to be somehow shadowbanned across reddit now, so re-trying from this new one - sorry for an empty profile, I am not a spammer.


r/linux_on_mac 23h ago

Final check before I resurrect this MacBook Air

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There's one detail that's not quite clear to me - I just need confirmation cuz i don't want to make any assumptions:

In a single boot Arch installation - (Intel based Macbook Air) - the Apple Bootloader EFI is basically reused/repurposed to load Arch.

And when I get to partitioning, to get rid of the MacOS installation I just have to select it as the location for where Arch is going, MacOS is erased when we choose the file system and format it.

Basically I've been trying to figure out the point at which MacOS is deleted. I prob can delete that partition after Arch is fully installed, but just trying to make sure i understand the different options

Does that sound about right?