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by juujian 326 days ago
Obligatory "my experience diverges." Which manufacturers were those? New flagship devices or more established hardware?
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https://www.asus.com/laptops/for-home/vivobook/asus-vivobook...

Maybe it's been fixed, but I brought this on release last year, it never worked right with Linux.

Hours upon hours of trying to fix it for naught.

I actually prefer Linux as a daily driver, I have the Ultra Core V2 version of the same laptop and rolling releases are generally fine for 3 to 6 months. At which point I just reinstall , while leaving Windows intact.

I guess if you want to buy a slightly older laptop or at least one with a slightly older CPU things are fine.

Refurbished Thinkpads excel particularly well here.

5k screens over DP are two screens in a trenchcoat. I saw this abstraction broken with menubar (only on half the screen), blue light filter (have to program both harlves), screen placement (have to drag both halves into place). FreeDesktop Gitlab has been tracking this since 2017 but IME only 2023 Ubuntu got it perfect, IIRC KDE got it perfect later.