Re: [PLUG] Lenovo laptop [UPDATE]

2021-11-29 Thread Tomas Kuchta
My X13-1 thinkpad with Ryzen 7 4750U has not crashed in the year I have it either. I suspend it a lot, have run out battery a few times, rarely reboot post update When it was new, it needed newer kernel than in Ubuntu 20.04 at the time though. One of the point releases upgraded the kernel a

Re: [PLUG] Lenovo laptop [UPDATE]

2021-11-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 29 Nov 2021, Ben Koenig wrote: There are also some stability issues with Ryzen systems. I get about 10-30 minutes in KDevelop before my thinkpad e485 crashes. Happens on my desktop too. Ben, My Ryzen 7/2700 desktop has not crashed; the last reboot (user error, not hardware) was 121

Re: [PLUG] Lenovo laptop [UPDATE]

2021-11-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 29 Nov 2021, Russell Senior wrote: Then there is the question of whether you are paying the microsoft tax. My initial reading about the frame.work laptop shows it ships with Windows, whether you use it or not. And it's their DIY model (or one option) that requires an NVIDIA driver.

Re: [PLUG] Lenovo laptop

2021-11-29 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Formally only thinkpad line is supports linux and allows hw upgrades. I am not sure if that excludes customer electronics models such as idea pad. There are rumors, not sure if true - I have exclusively enterprise thinkpad experience, that upgrades may be somewhat restricted in bios for

Re: [PLUG] Lenovo laptop [UPDATE]

2021-11-29 Thread Russell Senior
The primary problems tend to be closed hardware with no open-source drivers, and for a laptop that often manifests as Broadcom wifi radios. If you can make sure that the laptop does not come with a Broadcom wifi (and maybe Nvidia graphics), the likelihood is that you won't have trouble. Then

Re: [PLUG] Lenovo laptop [UPDATE]

2021-11-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 29 Nov 2021, Randy Bush wrote: fwiw, i would be deeply shocked if a modern lenovo did not run linux. you might need ubu as opposed to deb, because of lagging drivers. Randy, The newer hardware is the issue. Regards, Rich

Re: [PLUG] Lenovo laptop [UPDATE]

2021-11-29 Thread Randy Bush
> Thanks for sharing your experiences. There are series newer than the T > and X and I cannot find linux compatability information for them. fwiw, i would be deeply shocked if a modern lenovo did not run linux. you might need ubu as opposed to deb, because of lagging drivers. randy

Re: [PLUG] Lenovo laptop [UPDATE]

2021-11-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 29 Nov 2021, Bruce Kilpatrick wrote: My Lenovo had no problem running several different distributions over the years it was in service...for what that's worth. Bruce, Thanks for sharing your experiences. There are series newer than the T and X and I cannot find linux compatability

Re: [PLUG] Lenovo laptop [UPDATE]

2021-11-29 Thread Bruce Kilpatrick
My Lenovo had no problem running several different distributions over the years it was in service...for what that's worth. Bruce On 11/29/21 10:09 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 29 Nov 2021, Rich Shepard wrote: I believe that Lenovo is continuing it's linux support in its new laptops. Is

Re: [PLUG] Lenovo laptop [UPDATE]

2021-11-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 29 Nov 2021, Randy Bush wrote: https://frame.work Thanks for the suggestion, Randy. Rich

Re: [PLUG] Lenovo laptop [UPDATE]

2021-11-29 Thread Randy Bush
> Newegg's chat person could not find an answer to my question and > Lenovo doesn't have a chat service and every attempt to contact > them via their web site requires a product serial number. > > I don't follow hardware for linux and cannot find whether this > laptop supports the OS so I guess

Re: [PLUG] Lenovo laptop [UPDATE]

2021-11-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 29 Nov 2021, Rich Shepard wrote: I believe that Lenovo is continuing it's linux support in its new laptops. Is there any reason why I could not install linux on the Lenovo Laptop IdeaPad 5 15ALC05 82LN006CUS AMD Ryzen 7 5000 Series 5700U (1.80GHz) 8 GB Memory 512 GB PCIe SSD AMD Radeon

[PLUG] Lenovo laptop

2021-11-29 Thread Rich Shepard
I believe that Lenovo is continuing it's linux support in its new laptops. Is there any reason why I could not install linux on the Lenovo Laptop IdeaPad 5 15ALC05 82LN006CUS AMD Ryzen 7 5000 Series 5700U (1.80GHz) 8 GB Memory 512 GB PCIe SSD AMD Radeon Graphics and upgrade the memory and the

Re: [PLUG] Any use for old PCEngines and Soekris Geode boards?

2021-11-29 Thread Russell Senior
Which boards are they? I have some older Soekris 48xx boards, and some PC Engines Alix. The Alix are probably still useful to Personal Telco. On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 5:05 PM Eric House wrote: > > 10-15 years ago I was running LEAF (a linux-based router OS) on mini-pc > boards from these two