I just installed EndeavorOS on an HP Spectre360 that’s roughly 2 years old. I am honestly surprised at how easy it went. If you google it, you’ll get a lot of “lol good luck installing linux on that” type posts - so I was ready for a battle.

Turned off secure boot and tpm. Booted off a usb stick. Live environment, check. Start installer and wipe drive. Few minutes later I’m in. Ok let’s find out what’s not working…

WiFi check. Bluetooth check. Sound check (although a little quiet). Keyboard check. Screen resolution check. Hibernates correctly? Check. WTF I can’t believe this all works out the box. The touchscreen? Check. The stylus pen check. Flipping the screen over to a tablet check. Jesus H.

Ok, everything just works. Huh. Who’d have thunk?

Install programs, log into accounts, jeez this laptop is snappier than on windows. Make things pretty for my wife and install some fun games and stuff.

Finished. Ez. Why did I wait so long? Google was wrong - it was cake.

  • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    24 days ago

    I just installed EndeavorOS on an HP Spectre360 that’s roughly 2 years old. I am honestly surprised at how easy it went.

    I don’t get your surprise. With a decent laptop like the one you have everything will work properly. You can even load something more stable like Debian into that and it will work just fine on the first attempt. No changes required.

    The issue with stuff “not working out of the box” is usually related to people using unbranded potatoes or very old hardware with modern distros.

    • Andrzej@lemmy.myserv.one
      91·
      24 days ago

      On the contrary, it’s often new hardware that causes the problems because the drivers won’t have been reverse-engineered yet

        • Andrzej@lemmy.myserv.one
          1·
          23 days ago

          But plenty doesn’t e.g. Broadcom wifi cards. If you just buy whatever new hardware and expect Linux to work out of the box, you’re likely to have problems ime.

          There are always options of course, but you have to shop wisely!

            • Andrzej@lemmy.myserv.one
              1·
              23 days ago

              Ok, fair cop, I’m misremembering things — I had issues with a realtek card recently though. The point is that, as good as first party support is these days, you can’t just buy anything and expect it to work, especially if it came out in the last couple of years.