Well, it looks like they have gotten it pretty well worked out now. I mentioned at the beginning that I have been avoiding HP laptops for quite a while, because I had so much trouble with the UEFI firmware configuration before. I will wrap this up with a few words about the HP UEFI firmware. Five different Linux distribution, with very different installers, and not a single problem. So, there you have it - or at least, the first pass through the distributions which I install and use most frequently. Watsonĭo I need to say it again? Everything works. OpenSUSE Leap 15.0 Beta - KDE Desktop Image: J.A. I'm particularly interested in seeing how the installation goes with this distribution, because Manjaro uses the calamares installer, which is also used by several other popular distributions, so if this one goes smoothly, especially with the HP UEFI firmware, it means the same will be true of KaOS, Sparky and others. Ok, time for another of my favorites - Manjaro Linux. Reboot after the upgrade has finished, and the system is running Debian testing. Then refresh the repository list ( apt-get update), and download and install the updates ( apt-get dist-upgrade). All I had to do was go to the apt sources list again (/etc/apt/sources.list), and change every occurrence of "stretch" to "testing". I prefer to run Debian testing, because it stays much more up-to-date with ongoing Linux development. Tap-to-click doesn't work in Debian stable (stretch), and there is no option to enable it in the Mouse & Touchpad settings utility. Almost everything was working normally - the exception was (still) the touchpad. WatsonĪt this point I was running Debian 9.3 (stretch). Grrr.ĭebian GNU/Linux 9.3 (stretch) - Xfce Image: J.A. When I first turned it on, I couldn't interrupt the boot sequence, it just went straight into Windows setup with absolutely no delay. I wanted to boot directly to a Linux Live USB stick, so that I could take a look at how the disks were partitioned and used, but it seems like it is delivered in a sort of "suspended/hibernated" state at the beginning of the setup/configure procedure. My initial experience with it didn't start off too well. SEE: 20 quick tips to make Linux networking easier (free PDF) So that will be one of the major things I will be interested in looking at on this one. I have stayed away from HP laptops for several years now, because of how difficult it was to manage and configure their UEFI firmware to boot Linux. Just about the only thing I can think of that this laptop doesn't have is an optical (CD/DVD) drive. I don't recall having seen a laptop with both a decent sized SSD and a decent sized hard drive at anywhere near this price - that was what really caught my eye in the advert originally. Those are some very good specifications, especially at this price.
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