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...
@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
You were right; installing the proprietary drivers did in fact solve the problem
@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.
@AmpBenzScientist
In the end I found other problems; I installed fedora and that works well out of the box