Comment by anonymousDan
1 month ago
How do you check the hardware is compatible in practice? Is there some reliable resource for doing this?
1 month ago
How do you check the hardware is compatible in practice? Is there some reliable resource for doing this?
I've found generally that business-grade hardware has better Linux support. So for laptops, for instance, Lenovo Thinkpad and Dell Latitude laptops work better than some bargain-basement consumer-grade laptop.
As a rule AMD stuff is pretty safe, but to answer your question, I generally go look at kernel sources, or sometimes I go and see if I can find the model in the NixOS Github and see how many workarounds that they have to do to get it working.
https://linux-hardware.org/ is useful for this.
I bought a cheap laptop with preinstalled linux, it happened to be compatible with linux.