How's people's experiences been with Precisions running linux? And then, the distro it came with vs installing your own? I've bought a few HP Elitebooks and Zbooks that say they're Ubuntu and RHEL...
How's people's experiences been with Precisions running linux? And then, the distro it came with vs installing your own?
I've bought a few HP Elitebooks and Zbooks that say they're Ubuntu and RHEL certified, but when it comes to installing Ubuntu or well, Fedora anyway, I end up with crashing wifi drivers, cryptic ACPI errors, card readers and fingerprint readers not working, etc. Really no different than my experiences with non-certified hardware.
I don’t have experience with this, but I assume that the main thing is that all the hardware will have stable, supported Linux drivers. I’m not sure what effect using a distro other than their...
I don’t have experience with this, but I assume that the main thing is that all the hardware will have stable, supported Linux drivers. I’m not sure what effect using a distro other than their included one would have.
Yeah unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case, at least with HP. I get all kinds of errors like ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \_SB.WMIV.WVPO, AE_AML_OPERAND_TYPE...
Yeah unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case, at least with HP. I get all kinds of errors like ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \_SB.WMIV.WVPO, AE_AML_OPERAND_TYPE (20180105/psparse-550) on boot, and HP's support forums are full of unanswered questions about it.
I don't know if maybe HP has a custom version that's meant to be used with these laptops, and I guess I haven't really looked into it. I believe the "developer edition" comes with FreeDOS, and there's no way I've found to buy them with linux preinstalled. My guess is there must be a version of linux out there with the appropriate patches, otherwise I don't see how these could be certified. That is, unless the Ubuntu and RHEL certifications are meaningless.
How's people's experiences been with Precisions running linux? And then, the distro it came with vs installing your own?
I've bought a few HP Elitebooks and Zbooks that say they're Ubuntu and RHEL certified, but when it comes to installing Ubuntu or well, Fedora anyway, I end up with crashing wifi drivers, cryptic ACPI errors, card readers and fingerprint readers not working, etc. Really no different than my experiences with non-certified hardware.
I don’t have experience with this, but I assume that the main thing is that all the hardware will have stable, supported Linux drivers. I’m not sure what effect using a distro other than their included one would have.
Yeah unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case, at least with HP. I get all kinds of errors like
ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \_SB.WMIV.WVPO, AE_AML_OPERAND_TYPE (20180105/psparse-550)on boot, and HP's support forums are full of unanswered questions about it.I don't know if maybe HP has a custom version that's meant to be used with these laptops, and I guess I haven't really looked into it. I believe the "developer edition" comes with FreeDOS, and there's no way I've found to buy them with linux preinstalled. My guess is there must be a version of linux out there with the appropriate patches, otherwise I don't see how these could be certified. That is, unless the Ubuntu and RHEL certifications are meaningless.
I'm running fedora on a 5510 and a 9360 with no issues.
I'm running a 5510 with fedora right now but I want that 7730 🤤. These machines run so well, I can't believe we're at this stage with Linux.