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?
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
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.
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
Solid advice, thanks. Been meaning to try pop os anyway.
If it’s a Thinkpad then archwiki and thinkwiki both are great resources for all features support status.
Otherwise https://linux-hardware.org/
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.
This site could also be useful for checking on Linux compatibility: https://linux-hardware.org/
Edit: missed that it was posted before. Sorry for the noise😊
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
