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PoisedProto • last Monday at 4:03 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

My "gaming" laptop is completely effed on most distributions, and forces me to use Linux Mint to select an older driver (which also causes problems.)

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kachapopopow • last Monday at 4:08 PM

that sounds like a firmware issue rather than a driver one, laptops are known to have horrible apic including on windows (ex: asus laptops). https://github.com/Zephkek/Asus-ROG-Aml-Deep-Dive

godelski • last Tuesday at 11:26 PM

  >  completely effed on most distributions
How does the distribution make this an issue? You can always freeze drivers and install old ones. I get that it might not work out of the box, especially with rolling-release distros like Arch, but you also don't want rolling-releases for an older machine.
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everdrive • last Monday at 8:15 PM

I assume you have 2 GPUs and one is integrated?