I managed to get an ok deal on a Lenovo Legion slim 5 with the ryzen 5 7640hs and Geforce rtx 4050. My experience with Lenovo’s on Linux in the past has been kind of mixed, is there a good way to check all the hardware for levels of compatibility?

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    1 year ago

    Most distros can be set up on a live usb, so you can just run off of the usb and check if all your devices supported

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, that’s true I suppose. I was just hoping there was a bit more mature, “this chipset is unsupported because of this” sort of thing now.

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    I would say boot from live USB but your experience will be poor without the nvidia bull

    I would boot Pop os as it has special nvidia iso

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    I struggled getting my optimus laptop(hybrid graphics Intel/nvidia) working properly.

    They key was disabling secure boot which meant the kernel modules could be loaded

    I think this causes a bunch of problems

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      It’s not, it’s Lenovo Legion, part of their gaming line. I’ll take a look at that anyway, maybe there is some crossover.