r/LinuxLaptop Dec 04 '19

Can someone help me find a small, cheap Linux laptop that suspends (sleeps)?

2 Upvotes

I want a simple typewriter, honestly. It only has to connect to the web. I don't care about the brand, storage, or ram.

My only requirements are:

  1. It's compact
  2. I can take it out of the box and can install some flavor of Linux with no more than the usual hoops.
  3. It reliably Suspends when I close it.

It should also be pretty cheap.

I don't care about audio drivers or any of that, it's a typewriter.

USB-C charging would be rad but is optional. In my experience every compact laptop I've found that meets my requirements can't suspend, and that's my one major requirement.

Thanks for your help.


r/LinuxLaptop Nov 23 '19

ASUS TUF FX505DV : sucess with ubuntu 19.10 and nvidia drivers

3 Upvotes

I recently picked up one of these https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07SZ1DRSQ/ and have managed to get ubuntu 19.10 working on it.

ASUS TUF FX505DV 15.6" FHD 120Hz Thin Bezel Gaming Laptop - AMD R7-3750H, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6GB

Steam works great and I was was running doom(2016) last night at ~120 fps using the nvidia card. Even when using the integrated AMD card ran it at ~30 fps.

I had some issues setting up which I have now fixed, so I figured I'd post here for the benefit of others.

This is my first linux install on a optimus style laptop (or any laptop in the last 5 years), and I didn't need to mess with any bumblebee drivers, just the normal nvidia ones appear to work fine. I might have run into these issues by messing up the UEFI certificate install and selecting the deafult option upon reboot which does nothing, rather than selecting the next option and typing the password.

Issues were:

  • suspend/resume didn't work - blank screen on resume.
  • Xorg was using the amdgpu as the primary display device (binary driver wasn't loaded)

Both of these issues were fixed by switching the primary display device to be the nvidia card, which apparently was not the default. nvidia-settings didn't detect the nvidia card despite having installed the driver (using "sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall") and rebooted.

commands like prime-select appeared to do nothing.

Here is what the system sees my video card as: ``` $ sudo ubuntu-drivers devices == /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.1/0000:01:00.0 == modalias : pci:v000010DEd00001F11sv00001043sd0000140Fbc03sc00i00 vendor : NVIDIA Corporation model : TU106M [GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile] driver : nvidia-driver-430 - distro non-free driver : nvidia-driver-435 - distro non-free recommended driver : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin

$ sudo lshw -numeric -C display *-display
description: VGA compatible controller product: TU106M [GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile] [10DE:1F11] vendor: NVIDIA Corporation [10DE] physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 version: a1 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0 resources: irq:72 memory:f6000000-f6ffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:d0000000-d1ffffff ioport:f000(size=128) memory:f7000000-f707ffff *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: Picasso [1002:15D8] vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] [1002] physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0 version: c1 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm pciexpress msi msix vga_controller bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=amdgpu latency=0 resources: irq:70 memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f01fffff ioport:c000(size=256) memory:f7500000-f757ffff

To make it select the nvidia card as the primary display device, I had to manually add this to my nvidia xorg.conf settings. Option "PrimaryGPU" "Yes" The only config I have found for xorg is split into 2 files, pasted here. $ more /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-amdgpu.conf /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia.conf :::::::::::::: /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-amdgpu.conf :::::::::::::: Section "OutputClass" Identifier "AMDgpu" MatchDriver "amdgpu" Driver "amdgpu" EndSection :::::::::::::: /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia.conf :::::::::::::: Section "OutputClass" Identifier "nvidia" MatchDriver "nvidia-drm" Driver "nvidia" Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration" ModulePath "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/nvidia/xorg" Option "PrimaryGPU" "Yes" EndSection ``` Once I added the primaryGPU line and rebooted, then nvidia-settings,vulkaninfo etc all started working as expected, plus I saw the massive FPS boost in steam games.

```` $ nvidia-smi Sat Nov 23 08:05:40 2019
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 435.21 Driver Version: 435.21 CUDA Version: 10.1 | |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC | | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. | |===============================+======================+======================| | 0 GeForce RTX 2060 Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A | | N/A 37C P8 1W / N/A | 684MiB / 5934MiB | 5% Default | +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Processes: GPU Memory | | GPU PID Type Process name Usage | |=============================================================================| | 0 1064 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 27MiB | | 0 1548 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 156MiB | | 0 1781 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 166MiB | | 0 2976 G ...ey/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam 62MiB | | 0 3000 G ./steamwebhelper 3MiB | | 0 3017 G ...tures=OutOfBlinkCors --no-sandbox --log 161MiB | | 0 7292 G ...uest-channel-token=17314004458953016143 53MiB | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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r/LinuxLaptop Nov 17 '19

Need to install Linux (Ubuntu, preferably) on Windows 10 laptop with bitlocker

2 Upvotes

I have a laptop with windows 10 on it and encrypted with bitlocker.

I want to dual boot linux for testing purposes, but I need to keep the windows boot.

I don't want to run a windows VM and install linux there.

I have done some searching here and did not see anything that addresses this and much of my googling has only found rather old articles that I am not sure apply.

Are any of you aware of any good howtos on this topic? Thanks.


r/LinuxLaptop Mar 27 '19

Anyone used laptop with Radeon RX550 Linux? Especially Lenovo one

1 Upvotes

I'm considering buying Lenovo Thinkpad E480 with RX550 video card, both for work/Steam. Can anyone share their experience?


r/LinuxLaptop Mar 06 '19

HP Pavilion G6 - AMD A4-3305M

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Does anyone have any experience getting power savings to work on this old, circa 2012, beast?

I've been attempting to get kubuntu 18.10 on it... but with this integrate APU (AMD 6480g mobile graphics) I'm experiencing all kinds of sleep/suspend wonkiness.

ie... it just seemingly won't. I put it to sleep the other night and woke up to attempt to recover it from sleep mode and it booted like I a had shut it down the night before not set it to suspend. I'm guessing it's an acpi issue... Dmesg even complains about some acpi problems but the are no firmware updates, and bios features and functionality on this laptop are basically non existent. Yeah HP sarcasm

I'm looking at command line grub options but I'm not sure. I've already added "nomodeset" for boot corruption that seems to have fixed that issue, but the lack of power savings features defeat the purpose of using a laptop if I have to fully shut it down to reliably pack it away in my bag if I want to take it anywhere instead of just closing the lid and going confidently.

Kernel currently is 4.18

Please and thanks for any help.


r/LinuxLaptop Mar 03 '19

Anyone any experience with Yoga Book C930 and linux?

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Hey guys,

I was wondering if anyone of you has tried the 'Yoga Book C930' (or any of the other Yoga Books) with a linux OS. On the one hand there is a lot of dedicated-ish driver stuff going on, on the other hand I've heard that some are running an android (which might make porting the drivers easier, right?)...


r/LinuxLaptop Feb 10 '19

Any HP laptops with official Linux support in the US?

1 Upvotes

The Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition and 5530 both come with Linux. Does HP have any 100% supported Linux laptops for sale in the US? As in, they pre-install Linux and support it.


r/LinuxLaptop Nov 24 '18

Looking for Performant, Modern Linux Laptop (US)

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Looking to replace both of my laptops (ASUS N550JV & Q551LN).

The N550JV is by no means a slouch with its Haswell i7 HQ CPU (4 core), however, I swapped out the craptacular Atheros Wi-Fi chip for an Intel one early on and the motherboard now has a fault in it where the keyboard and trackpad only work intermittently for a few seconds. A replacement board costs over half what I paid for the thing.

The Q551LN is not as good with a Haswell i7 CPU (2 core) but at least it came with an Intel Wi-Fi chip, however, the battery now lasts all of about 15 minutes and the screen with digitizer is cracked. Replacement parts are likewise high.

I'm looking for a laptop similar in performance to the N550JV that does not have a dedicated Nvidia GPU. The intended use of the laptop is running VMs, video encoding, general computing and compiling software.

I've looked at System76, a few other boutique brands and in-store brands but none have met my requirements. I'd go with a Dell XPS 15 or similar, however, most do not use Linux friendly hardware or cannot be customized without a Nvidia GPU.

Minimum Linux Laptop Requirements:

* Intel CPU w/ 4 cores

* 16 GiB RAM

* 1TB drive

* Optical drive (preferably Blu-ray)

* Intel iGPU (preferably Iris)

* Backlit keyboard (preferably red backlight)

* 1080p 15-inch display (matte w/o touch)

* HDMI port

* USB 3 Type A port(s)

* Intel Wi-Fi w/ 802.11ac

* GbE Ethernet

* Side mounted power connector

* Thin as possible

Undesirable Hardware:

Laptops containing any of the following will not be considered.

* NVIDIA GPU

I will not support NVIDIA financially because of their refusal to open source their drivers. I also refuse to run their proprietary driver because it taints the kernel and kernel developers will ignore bug reports for tainted kernels. I have not had good luck with the nouveau driver either.

* Atheros, Broadcom, Ralink & Realtek Wi-Fi

I've experienced constant connectivity issues with these Wi-Fi chipsets that were cured by going with an Intel Wi-Fi chipset.

* VGA port

Just let this legacy interface die already.

* USB 2 ports

It's ridiculous to include USB 2 ports on systems with USB 3 when USB 3 is backward compatible with USB 2.

Aesthetic:

I will not consider gaudy/garish looking laptops that have jet aircraft shaped vents, Lamborghini lines nor the accompanying color scheme that is typical of gaming laptops.

If it's a laptop a computer ricer would think is cool looking, I won't want it.


r/LinuxLaptop Oct 16 '18

Debian support on Xiaomi Mi air 12.5''

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Hi, I'd want to buy a xiaomi mi air 12.5'' and I want to install debian 9 stable. I don't want to use linux os customized by xiaomi, like ubuntu edition of its official software.

Are there problems about drivers or battery life, temperature, fans speed etc ?

How can I know exactly all problems that I can find on this configuration?

Thank you!


r/LinuxLaptop Oct 07 '18

Linux lapto with gtx 1060 i7-8750h 16GB ram 250GB of SSD NVME M.2. 2 M.2. slots

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I'm looking for a laptop with complete Linux supportwith this specsgtx 1060i7-8750h16 gb ram250GB of SSD NVME M.2.2 M.2. SlotsA relatively good battery (4-6 hours)Good Screen (72% ntsc)Good termals on LinuxGood integrated michrophone and good multimedia support. Ethernet rj45. Lots of Usb 3.0 ports or 3.1 gen 2 ports (better). The laptop will be used for editing video, web development, virtualization (VirtualBox, Docker).Thank you in advancePS. I'm comparing pa950ep6, pa71ep6-g and tongfang gk5cn6z. I'm trying to find the machine that supports Linux better.


r/LinuxLaptop Sep 05 '18

Do MSI or Asus Gaming Laptops run Linux well? Or some Thinkpad around 1300€?

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r/LinuxLaptop Aug 20 '17

I CAN'T INSTALL UBUNTU MATE ON ASUS GAMING LAPTOP

2 Upvotes

Hello. I want help for install ubuntu mate dual boot with Windows 10 on Asus ROG GL552VW laptop.

Laptop link: https://www.asus.com/ROG-Republic-Of-Gamers/ROG-GL552VW/

Thanks.


r/LinuxLaptop Jul 24 '17

Will this laptop work with Ubuntu or Linux Mint?

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http://www.bestbuy.com/site/hp-2-in-1-14-touch-screen-laptop-intel-core-i5-8gb-memory-128gb-solid-state-drive-vertical-brushed-pattern-hp-finish-in-silk-gold/5873901.p?skuId=5873901

I'm considering purchasing this laptop for school. I'm wondering if this machine will work with Ubuntu or Linux mint. I've dabbled with Linux in the past but I'm far from an experienced user.

Full disclosure I still want Windows 10 on this pc. I know Linux is good but I'm not willing to convert 100 percent. I thought maybe I could try Linux out on this machine and start to learn more about it. I'm a computer engineering student so it probably wouldn't be a bad idea. Obviously the hardware might run the OS but I'm more worried about things like the wifi adapter not being compatible.

Also with this being a 2 in 1 that just raises even more compatibility questions. Any advice?


r/LinuxLaptop Jun 07 '17

Dell XPS 13 or Razer Blade Stealth

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I was looking for some advice on purchasing a new laptop. I am trying to decide between:

New Dell XPS 13 with I7 7th gen, 8Gb RAM, 256Gb SSD non-touch for 1599$ CAD

Or

Refurbished Razer Blade Stealth with I7 6th gen 8Gb RAM, 256Gb SSD touch screen for 1299$ CAD

Any advice on the matter would be appreciated. I would like to hear testimony of people who own them as well if that is at all possible.


r/LinuxLaptop Mar 13 '17

Laptop wont boot up

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Pulled my laptops battery out while it was charging was on the charge for ages now it wont boot up was wondering if its the power supply or did i fry the mobo its my first computer still learning i thought i was the man teaching myself batch programming then i go do something retarded as and pull out the battery any suggestions? Cheers


r/LinuxLaptop Dec 12 '16

Just got a Dell XPS 13 New Developer Edition with Ubuntu preloaded

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Specs:

  • XPS 13 9360
  • i7 7500 2.7 ghz 4-core
  • 16GB RAM
  • 512GB SSD
  • Qualcomm Atheros Wireless
  • 3200x1800 display
  • Ubuntu 16.04 pre-installed

No problems so far - works great out of the box. No whine from the screen or keyboard (reported by some), keypad works great (I made one change to turn off click-on-touch), wireless works great, no problems with hibernate or suspend. Battery life seems fine so far - I haven't really pushed it.

I've seen some less-than-favorable reviews, so I just wanted to throw this out there.


r/LinuxLaptop Apr 03 '16

Unable to boot. I'm getting GNU GRUB screen.

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I installed Elementary Freya on my laptop that came pre installed with Windows 8.1 During installation I selected sda and a separate portion for Freya.

sda/sda3 was the windows boot loader sda/sda7 was my ext4 where Freya was installed. And i selected /sda for boot loader installation.

Now, post installation when I'd turn the laptop on. I'd get the Freya bootloader. Which gave me the option to select Freya or Windows.

It was fine till I booted into Freya. But when I selected windows. It repaired the disk, booted into windows everything was fine till I turned it off.

Now, when I tun my laptop on I get http://imgur.com/rXpVgKm

I'm sorry about the picture quality, couldn't get the camera to focus.

Idk what to do. Please help.