Got a new laptop for my job today, you can compare it with the one I was using until now.
Old laptop: better keyboard
New laptop: better everything else
Hopefully this one doesn't shut down if I play a movie with Firefox open
Ok, I can see they really splurged on this laptop!
It's so new that the WiFi adapter is not recognised by Debian non-free...
I'll have to waste some time on this tomorrow...
@AmpBenzScientist
Yes, I imagine I could...
I didn't want to waste a lot of time in doing this however.
I'm not even sure what's the earliest version of the kernel I can take that has these drivers.
I guess I'll first try another stable Linux distribution to see if they've got the new kernel and that doesn't break everything, otherwise I'll do this
@rastinza You can use the latest available one too. It's not too time consuming to compile the Kernel, it's the configuration that takes a while. You can enable the newer or testing repositories which should have more Kernel versions available.
@rastinza in the interim you can buy a usb wifi dongle while looking for solutions (in case ethernet connection is not an option). Not ideal, but surely it'll work.
@ghose
Ethernet is an option, but it's not ideal.
I don't want to wait for the next Debian lts to be able to use the laptop properly
I guess time has come to try fedora or suss and see if they got better support...
@rastinza Good luck with that Nvidia GPU and Linux. If you are using an open source driver for the GPU then use the proprietary driver. Monitor the boot process for more useful information. I'm guessing it's the GPU.
@AmpBenzScientist
Yes, I guess the GPU is creating some troubles...
Didn't really need such a modern one, just a dedicated one to run some calculation
Didn't even try configuring it yet...
@AmpBenzScientist
I'll first try installing fedora to see if that works out of the box
If it doesn't I'll get into troubleshooting
@AmpBenzScientist
You were right; installing the proprietary drivers did in fact solve the problem
@AmpBenzScientist
In the end I found other problems; I installed fedora and that works well out of the box
@rastinza I thought about recommending RHEL and decided not to just as quickly as it came into my mind.
Glad you found something that is working. You should have good repos for OpenMP and GPGPU utilization. You should be able to configure the GPU to be used in calculations or compilation without much work. If you think you are fast now, wait until you get the GPU cores involved. That's one positive thing I will say about RHEL. It's good with Clusters, HPC, Heterogeneous Hardware and doing systems tests on the F-22 Raptor.
@rastinza I had a WNIC on the first system I tried Linux on and every distribution went into Kernel Panic except for DSL. The driver would load automatically and cause a Kernel Panic. It was the first and only time I had to physically remove hardware to get Linux running.
In retrospect, it was a good start with Linux. At the time I was rather upset that it had taken a couple of weeks to get working. Within a year or so I was hardening Kernels and custom compiling for different purposes. That was a decade ago.
It's a pleasure to help as I wouldn't have made it this far without the help of others.
@rastinza You might be able to find the source code for a different version of the Kernel and build it. I've rarely had a bad experience with custom compiled Kernels. It should help trim the excess off too.