Put linux on a laptop

Jow Forums is the wrong board for you, you probably got lost on your way to oo

>Time is money.
Then use linux

I have a feeling it will be near to impossible for me to set this shit up. Every time I try to switch to linux something just doesn't work.

>can't post tech support threads
>just make a bait thread to scam anons into solving your idiotic problems for you
>everyone falls for it

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>he doesn't know the difference between "your" and "you're"
Typical wintoddler, can't even speak English.

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>dur just spend a bunch of time configuring your laptop.

How about no? What can linux do that mac/windows can't?

I installed win7 on my 2004 laptop and it didnt recognize wireless card nor sound chip
after booting from live usb of puppy linux they worked out of the box so i could get the cards models to download drivers for inferior OS which happened to be windows7

customization, aka configuring things to your liking you retard

Jow Forums Jow Forums isnt your tech support thread. there is millions of sites you can go for this why go here?

unironically use ubuntu

I get better battery life in Fedora Xfce than in Windows 10 because Xfce is light as fuck and isn't loading Skype, Paint 3D and Candy Crush ads in the background like Windows does.

Have I triggered you, oh my bad. I'll surely switch to an os which costs me more money than use compared to windows because it wastes my time.

There's a difference between customising and fixing a broken os.

jesus fucking christ someone is REALLY pissed about steam play

>install GNU/Linux on my laptop
>dont do anything besides that for config because it fucking works

> get x260
> install arch day 1
> works out of the box
> trackpad better than windows
> battery life 17+ hours
OP Is baiting

just because windows babies you doesn't mean linux is broken.
Linux is better in a lot of ways but only if you put the time and effort in to change things to your liking.

I installed Debian on my thinkpad x131e and Lenovo N22 chromebook and have unchanged battery life, network connectivity, and trackpad performance on both of them.

When did shit start to work out of the box in windows? Was I sleeping under a rock for the past 3 years? My experience with windblows has always been, install the os, put cd with drivers so I can install wi-fi and for that matter any internet card driver so I can then download other drivers so that I can use the trakpad and so on and so on. Linux, antergos to be precise worked perfectly out of the box and still does. I fucking love linux.

>wireless card works out of the box
But only gets speeds up to 100MBit while one windows you actually do get the full speed

I've used Gentoo, Arch, Debian, Ubuntu and several others for fun. They're not meant for home users that need to be productive. You're not the userbase target they're looking for you neet.

na, windows 10 brought automatic driver installation and it actually just works now. drivers are from w7 era, but i do reinstall outdated generic drivers w10 puts on so i can sleep at night

Oohh, I see, cool. Still prefer linux tho.

>who cares about battery life?
its fine
>who cares about wireless network connectivity
>its fine
>who cares about a responsive trackpad?
its fine/why arent you using the much better trackpoint? you did get a thinkpad, right?

Linux faggot here, currently getting 12 hours of battery out of my 2017 Blade Stealth running Ubuntu 18.04 with i3. Zero issues with wireless connectivity - actually drops less than when I had the W10 installation. Thanks to synaptics tweaks the touchpad works exactly how I want it, zero issues.

Seems like you just don't want to join the linux master race, user

i dont blame you. tiling wms are sexy

>I took the time to distro hop instead of configuring one properly!
Kill yourself.

Wil Linux get me points with my profs?

>Battery life
sudo apt install tlp
>Wireless
Works OOB, stop using hobbyist distros
>Responsive trackpad
Settings > mouse > adjust speed wow that was hard

Solus is flawless on my x220 tablet. The trackpad sucks under any OS so I just use the clit mouse anyway.

does tlp work on other laptops? the man page says its for thinkpads

Last 2 are non-issues, first one is slightly remedied (but not completely) by TLP. This post might be true if you made it a decade or more ago.

Have I ever said that? Stop being a freetard.

Only problems I had was with chinkware. They give a fuck about standards, just slap some driver for Windows on it and it "just works" ... At least until MS releases an update that breaks "everything".

Buy standard-conform hardware and you won't have any problems!

It does

>>who cares about battery life?
Optimise your settings if you want to conserve battery.
>>who cares about wireless network connectivity
Install the fucking drivers, if you're too retarded to do that you're out of luck. If your chipset doesn't support any of the specialised or generic drivers you have a shit chipset.
>>who cares about a responsive trackpad?
Change the settings, install appropriate drivers.

I get over 12 hours of battery life on my laptop running Fedora 28. I've never had any wireless network connectivity issues on Fedora 28. Hell, I've had more connectivity issues in my very limited experiences on Windows 10 than I've ever had on Fedora. Also, both my trackpoint and trackpad work just as well on Fedora as on Windows.

Stop meming.

A few options are only for thinkpads but most of it works just fine.

>XPS 13
>installed Gentoo
>10 hour battery life
>Killer 5GHz wireless card just werks (thank you based Atheros)
>touchpad just werks and even has customizable gestures thanks to libinput
MS shills are in full force today

Linux looks better and is ultimately more user-friendly than Windows. Change my mind.

>rando asus laptop
>wireless works out of the box
>better battery life over win10 even before config

This is one of those posts that qualifies as complete bullshit.

install gentoo

What's a tpl?

OP too retarded to run GNU/Linux

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>Tries four distros "for fun"
>"They're not meant for home users that need to be productive"
Fuck off user.

He meant TLP, it’s a package intended for better power management.

>Linux isn't meant for anyone doing productivity
obvious trolling faggot spotted

jokes on op, the xps is such a piece of shit not even dell can fixed it :^)

I've been using Linux for close to a decade. For non-shit distros and non-shit hardware, everything except GPU drivers works OOTB. Occasionally I've had issues with Broadcom wireless adapters, but otherwise it all works.

when it works, it works better than anything else. you have to fuck with it to get there, though.

if you honestly believe time is money then why are you wasting it on Jow Forums?

My trackpads always worked fine
Battery life is much better on recent kernels and has been on par with windows since at least 4.15, being even better now
Wireless works unless you use obscure chink cards

>Time is money
Which is why I use Linux desu. Can't be bothered with windows, especially since 10.

Shit posting when you don't have to work is fun.

Install updates in a way that doesn't require a full reboot.
Allow selective updates (ex. filter out new kernels while still updating everything else).
Run core networking services for free (DHCP and DNS servers are not available on W10).

>who cares about battery life?
Linux does, my x220 lasts 30% longer on Ubuntu than winblows 10.
>who cares about wireless network connectivity
Linux does! I am in China and my VPN works better on Linux.
>who cares about a responsive trackpad?
Couldn't give a fuck, I use the clit in the middle of the keyboard.

Distros usually have laptop packages that come bundled with power management tools to get normal battery life times. Please install and configure your distribution to be used on a laptop. And by configure I mean installing one or two prebuild packages.
Some times the installer will detect you're on a laptop and preconfigure it if you're on a popular distro.

Wireless cards and connectivity were a probelm 8 years ago dude.

I don't get the third one.

>Linux is fucking bullshit and a half unless you're job requires that you know it.
Are you thinking of Windows? In my experience, Windows is way more like this than Linux.

>battery life
>windows background bloatware eating battery life

installed elementaryOS Loki on this piece of shit (was free, friend gave it to me after the screen stopped working, was a loose ribbon cable), and with TLP it works fine. only thing i had to install, rest of the shit 'just works'. I did get a driver that works better with the piece of shit E1 APU that came with it. dunno what faggotry that OP is on about, this thing runs like a dream compared to when it had Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 on it.

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i got a Lenovo g585, works fine.

it also dosnt mesh well with nvidia

Kills battery slower than Windows 10
Wifi usually works the same as in Windows unless you have a junky wifi card that Linux doesn't support properly
Trackpad usually works the same as in Windows but acceleration is more customizable and you often don't get the gesture stuff unless you choose a DE that supports that stuff

My X200s works perfectly with Debian. Same with X220/T420/T520 and HP Z420.

the wireless is shit on a x220, I have to use it in the front of my router

Xorg works fine with Nvidia, though the Radeon and Intel drivers are better made. Wayland straight up doesn't work with the Nvidia proprietary drivers since Wayland devs don't like Nvidia's API.

>you're job
opinion discarded

I scraped windows 15 years ago. Been on Linux all the way. Even run a business on it.

>be me
>own x220
>put Arch Linux on it
>only a few days and everything is perfect
brainlets need not apply

Running KDE Neon on a T410s

>who cares about battery life?
Improved since moving from Win10, I'm guessing it's because there's less shit running in the background

>who cares about wireless network connectivity
>who cares about a responsive trackpad?
The fuck are you on about? It works the same as it did in Windows

but on the plus side you get to be in le secrit hacker club

Windows kills my battery life and turns my CPU into a toaster on my X230.
Meanwhile absolutely no GNU/Linux distro has this problem.
Sounds like you got shitty hardware, OP.
Or maybe you're just an idiot.

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Linux is trash. Windows 10 is where it's at for laptops.
Install.. disable windows update, remove bloat in 5 mins.
DONE.

Still munches CPU in the background.

You naive homosexual.

>windows 10 brought automatic driver installation and it actually just works now
I wish. The wifi drivers Windows 10 installed for me were several versions out of date and were known to cause blue screens, so I had to grab the newest drivers from the chipset manufacturer's website to get a usable system. Fast forward a few months to one of Windows 10's big seasonal updates, and I started getting frequent blue screens again with a familiar error message. Turns out the update decided to revert the drivers I installed to the old, buggy Microsoft provided ones.

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Litterally all of these work

I have an Acer Aspire with i5 8250u and mx 150 that came with Endless. What distro do you recommend for good wireless and trackpad. K/Xubuntu? Mint? Gentoo?

Oh, and good battery life too, i only get 3 hours with Endless

I've had Windows 10 repeatedly reinstall the same shit buggy driver I had upgraded.

fuck off

I’ve played with Ubuntu and FreeBSD same shit as MacOS pretty much, only compares to android when it comes to clusterfuckery of features.

You don’t necessarily need to customize anything to make linux work, but when you start — it’s a never ending circle jerk. Who gives a fuck about updating apps without restarting PC, I don’t remember the last time I needed to restart windows 10, this is old wives tale, and Windows takes like 30 seconds to reboot.

Nobody is getting blue screens on windows, maybe bad builds with incompatible components, I’ve never had my windows 10 machine blue screen on me.

There’s no way to be productive on Linux anymore than you can be on a Mac 10 years ago. It’s a very useless os Linux, as in, there’s absolutely no reason to use it. Most of the opensauce applications are made for Mac as well, like aircrack, wine etc. you can download office apps and do basic hipster typing in a coffee shop, but when it comes to being truly productive, using Pro grade big apps, hardware incompatibility with Linux will leave the potential of your machine cucked under linux, meanwhile, on windows everything just works similarly to macOS

The sole reason linux got a big following is because early windows sucked, and you were able to configure a free os not to suck, Windows has evolved big time since then, you literally just block updates, install antivirus, remove bloatware, all takes under an hour to have fully functioning reliable work horse of operating system, Elon Musk agrees.

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>The sole reason linux got a big following is because early windows sucked
Windows sucked and mac was too expensive

Certified bullshit

Im lucky to get half the battery with ubuntu vs windows.

The wireless part ill cede, ubuntu automatically finds the right drivers, though im not sure about speed

Trackpad is literal aids, it is jittery beyond use. I can place a finger on it, and while keeping it still, the pointer will spasm

I use a dell latitude

With ubuntu/mint/manjaro
>battery is halved
>touchpad is unusable for anything percise

Why is Linux users are so aggressive?

I'm a devout cult follower. Change my mind.

Who cares, still has better battery life.
>Projecting
See your boyfriend's post above.