> -----Original Message----- > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of ken > Sent: den 16 november 2017 17:00 > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] HP laptops with CentOS 7? > > > I'm looking into getting HP laptops for our department running CentOS 7. > > For two years now I've been semi-happily using an HP Envy with the > high-end Nvidia graphics card. Installing CentOS7, everything worked > out of box except the wifi. The problem there was due to the drivers > requiring a v.3.5 kernel which centos doesn't yet have. There were some > very occasional glitches in the video, but subsequent upgrades to the > nvidia drivers eventually fixed those. > > Audio worked initially, but after installing vlc I've had problems which > I haven't been able to track down, so the sound with some apps just > doesn't work. Notably, anything audio through firefox doesn't work > except that which uses flashplayer. Audacity and vlc work just fine. > > The body of the laptop is solid, made mostly out of carbon fiber... it > seemed like it's bullet-proof. The pop-out DVD tray I got is really > flimsy, so must be handled quite gingerly. I've read that it's been > upgraded by HP to more solid version in more recent incarnations of the > Envy. > > I've never used the bluetooth, so I can't testify to how well that > works, but I've never seen/read any complaints about it, so I'd assume > it works. > > Of the six or more laptops I've owned in my life, the keyboard of this > one has been absolutely the most difficult one to get used to. It seems > that if I don't hit a key square in the middle of the key, that > character doesn't make it to the screen. Same failure if I press the > key too hard. This craps on my typing speed immensely, I used to type > at over 100 words/minute, but I'm now down to less than half that... > sucks big time. > > It's nice that it has a big touchpad and I use it all the time. Only > very seldom to I plug in a usb mouse (e.g., in Blender). But it's way > too easy to accidently touch the touchpad, resulting in all kinds of > random mayhem. So I modified some code I found to disable/enable the > touchpad and mapped that code to [Ctrl-`] so that it operates as a > toggle. Problem therewith nicely solved. > > Talking with folks on a suse list about the sound problem, I learned > that they have have no sound problems with there and, further, my > problem might be a messed up packman stack... whatever that is. Suse > also has a much higher kernel version than we do in centos, so switching > over to suse is in the works. That's sad because I've been a happy > RH/centos guy for a long time. > > Hope this review is helpful.
It is, thank you! Real life experiences are worth a lot to me, thanks again. -- //Sorin _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
