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<blockquote data-quote="mazskolnieces" data-source="post: 910860" data-attributes="member: 88422">For example, in the Linux community they constantly whine and moan that there are very few AMD CPU powered systems. Then once they get one, they whine and moan that AMD CPU, power management and thermal control software are not available on Linux. That is because coreboot only supports Intel - and to support AMD would require a huge amount of further development.The only people I know that use Linux for a personal laptop acknowledge that it is little more than an equivalent to Chromebook. The minute that they try making their Linux a Windows replacement - for business, productivity, media consumption, cloud, etc - it immediately falls apart. It requires either configuring the system to get it to work - and not changing it except once every few years - or constant troubleshooting due to upgrade breakages.For expensive laptops, the only real options out there are XPS 13 Developer Edition, the new Lenovo X1 Linux series, and well-supported Linux ODMs such as System76.Most people just buy old Lenovo laptops that are years old, then throw Linux onto them. Why is that ? Because when it comes to hardware compatibility, LInux still is 15+ years behind the Windows-OEM aliiances of bringing very well-developed software to hardware.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mazskolnieces, post: 910860, member: 88422"] For example, in the Linux community they constantly whine and moan that there are very few AMD CPU powered systems. Then once they get one, they whine and moan that AMD CPU, power management and thermal control software are not available on Linux. That is because coreboot only supports Intel - and to support AMD would require a huge amount of further development. The only people I know that use Linux for a personal laptop acknowledge that it is little more than an equivalent to Chromebook. The minute that they try making their Linux a Windows replacement - for business, productivity, media consumption, cloud, etc - it immediately falls apart. It requires either configuring the system to get it to work - and not changing it except once every few years - or constant troubleshooting due to upgrade breakages. For expensive laptops, the only real options out there are XPS 13 Developer Edition, the new Lenovo X1 Linux series, and well-supported Linux ODMs such as System76. Most people just buy old Lenovo laptops that are years old, then throw Linux onto them. Why is that ? Because when it comes to hardware compatibility, LInux still is 15+ years behind the Windows-OEM aliiances of bringing very well-developed software to hardware. [/QUOTE]

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