• artyom@piefed.social
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    15 hours ago

    It doesn’t matter what the usecase is if the Wifi or speakers or camera don’t work. Or if all the icons and text are so small as to be nearly impossible to read.

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      13 hours ago

      That Is almost always a hardware compatibility issue, if you get a machine that is specifically meant for Linux, even the jankiest of distros will not have all but the last issue, and for the last one if fractional scaling is causing issues just double your scale.

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        8 hours ago

        if you get a machine that is specifically meant for Linux

        LOL those are all like $2k

        if fractional scaling is causing issues just double your scale.

        I don’t think you understand what this is…

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          LOL those are all like $2k

          I’ll give you that if you want it officially supported they tend to come with those price tags, although i did find this one which is officially supporting linux at the midrange price tag Laptop, I mainly mean that the individual components are supported which you could determine through a little bit of research, but generally speaking if you don’t want to pay the premium, you should be prepared for a little bit of trouble shooting, but normally it is only for the webcam nowadays. Overall, I have changed the os on many of my laptops, and they have always either had no missing functionality after installation or had a forum that explained how to fix its issues that was a one and done fix.

          if fractional scaling is causing issues just double your scale.> I don’t think you understand what this is…

          Could you be more specific about what you mean? I don’t think I claimed anything that would be out of the purview of fractional scaling.