Hi ! On 2021-05-18 6:28 p.m., George Shuklin wrote: > Well, there are two answers to the questions on support Linux. > > One is full support of hardware by drivers and hardware. Often many > small things are missing, like mice off indicator on x220, or incorrect > support for Fn-based shortcuts. > I'm not talking about this type of support. > But there is a more important topic. It's support by main part of > archi8, without propietary blobs. That's all about coreboot, and having > all drivers been upsteamed, preferably without non-free blobs for firmware. > My Elitebook work great out of the box with a plain Debian Stretch (now being Buster) distribution. The only stuff that is considered blob would be the intel firmware loaded at boot. Good luck getting those opened by Intel.
Maybe what is bothering you regards the use of blob for the Wifi card ? You'd need to check inside the driver itself, if it does load some closed source binary firmware. > On Tue, May 18, 2021, 23:01 Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > <deb...@polynamaude.com <mailto:deb...@polynamaude.com>> wrote: > > Hi ! > I've had good experiences with HP EliteBook. > I'm not sure what you mean by Linux support. > Most laptop today will be supported in Linux, some tweak maybe necessary > but they are quite easy. > In my case it was the screen that was "turning around" by itself caused > by the motion sensor in the laptop that was reporting wrongfully. Once > disabled, my screen stay in the exact direction it is supposed too. > > Like all computer hardware, if you want something with good support then > you have to go away from the latest available. Business who require > computer for their core process, like engineering firm will often get > computer that are one year old (has been in production for a year) so > they already know the bugs out there and the support has had time to get > good. > > On 2021-05-18 3:49 p.m., George Shuklin wrote: > > I'm trying to choose between Purism and System76, and, as far as I > > understand they both supports linux very well, but.. > > > > Which one is better? Or, may me I missed and there are other coreboot > > (no ME) vendors with high-grade Linux support? > > > > I have a negative experience with XPS13 DE (which is shipped with > > Ubuntu, but even with all tweaks and random sleeps they added to > vanilla > > Ubuntu, is far from perfect in Linux support)... > > > > -- > Polyna-Maude R.-Summerside > -Be smart, Be wise, Support opensource development > -- Polyna-Maude R.-Summerside -Be smart, Be wise, Support opensource development
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