Hi Michael, Thanks for your helpful advice. I was quite happy with Gentoo LiveUSB for checking wifi and GPU support. Using binary packages sped up installation substantially as expected.
No issue to report at the moment. Wayland seems to work fine, too. The only point I didn't anticipate was Windows Secure Boot. I ended up disabling it as I could not setup Grub with it. Apart from that, quite happy with the process ! Alexis On Tuesday, August 6th, 2024 at 10:57 PM, Michael <confabul...@kintzios.com> wrote: > > > Hi Alexis, > > On Tuesday, 6 August 2024 15:43:21 BST Alexis Praga wrote: > > > Dear fellow Gentoo users, > > > > For the first time in 15 years, I have bought a new (and recent too !) > > laptop (Yoga 7 Gen 9). Is there a way to test Gentoo on it before > > installing it ? > > > You can try the LiveUSB, but unless it has all the requisite firmware you will > discover some hardware may not be identified or work as expected. > > > I was thinking of using the Live GUI usb to ensure the following works : > > - GPU (integrated AMD 780), especially with wayland > > - wifi > > - webcam > > - CPU (it's not a snapdragon but a Ryzen 7). > > > > Thanks ! > > > > Alexis > > > You could try any Linux distro LiveUSB to get get an idea of what kernel > drivers and firmware are needed for your hardware, then it is a matter of > installing Gentoo and configuring your system accordingly. > > Initially, you can use binary packages from Gentoo for a quick installation > and then decide if compiling from source and customising your USE flags is > something you may prefer for you needs. > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Binary_Host_Quickstart > > HTH.
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