On 2023-11-21 03:12, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
On 11/20/23 17:34, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2023-11-21 01:47, Joe Salmeri wrote:
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This may not be of much help, but I've been installing SuSE/openSUSE on all kinds of laptops, desktops, workstations, and servers since 1998 and I've yet to encounter an incompatibility. True, there used to be some issues with laptop special function keys and WiFi interfaces, but I haven't seen even that for many years. The servers include Dell, HP, and Supermicro, all worked well. The desktops included Dell, HP, MSI, Asus, Lenovo, and others. I even set up a dual-CPU Supermicro server that had 246 separate, non-raided disk drives. I've got other servers with 500-terabytes of raid storage and 512-GB of ECC ram. All running openSUSE.
I had some trouble with this Lenovo laptop, the WiFi was not recognized. However, with help from people on the list, the chipset was identified, kernel on the then beta 15.5 got the driver backported from upstream, and it worked. That was amazing. There is still some problem that the WiFi doesn't always work after a suspend to ram. Otherwise, most of the functionality does work. But I chose a laptop model that the manufactured "almost" supplied with Linux preinstalled, so it should work. I said "almost" because they supply the L15 with Linux, not the L14. 14 inches. And when I asked if they would install Linux on this model, they said I could buy it with no system and install it myself, so the brand is friendly to Linux. I had more trouble with my previous laptop, same brand. There are features that still do not work (limit charge to battery to increase life, for instance). I also have trouble with one of my machines with Intel video, so this laptop runs on AMD. I had significant trouble on another machine with NVidia driver. The company ceased to support my card after a number of years and I had to go back to the opensource driver instead, which is slower and doesn't have (full) hardware acceleration, and the desktop crashes some times. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))