On 02/14/2016 05:15 PM, Chuck Davis wrote:
Does anyone on this list have experience with MSI laptops? I'm may need a new one soon and I'm looking at their WT72 6QM 423US. Don't think I'd be able to do a "live" version test on one and don't want to pay that much for a boat anchor. It would be a java development machine for me.
Thanks.
Much like the others, no MSI laptop, but never had any issue with Linux on MSI. Actually, I've had less issues with MSI than I have had with others. (I should qualify that, I have never had *any* problem running Linux on *any* x86/x86_64 platform *except* for having to sort out IOMMU issues on x86_64 with the Realtek 8111/8168/8169/8411 NIC driver.) That covers a fair variety of distros from SuSE, openSuSE, Mandrake, Arch, Slackware, IBM Linux, etc... I like Patrick's advise. You cannot go wrong there. I think the shorter list would be (what Board/Models have experienced problem with Linux?) The only problem you run into there is false reports from people who have no clue what they are doing saying XYZ doesn't work with Linux -- when the real issue is operator error... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org