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Linux really has come a long way (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just installed EndeavorOS on an HP Spectre360 that’s roughly 2 years old. I am honestly surprised at how easy it went. If you google it, you’ll get a lot of “lol good luck installing linux on that” type posts - so I was ready for a battle.

Turned off secure boot and tpm. Booted off a usb stick. Live environment, check. Start installer and wipe drive. Few minutes later I’m in. Ok let’s find out what’s not working…

WiFi check. Bluetooth check. Sound check (although a little quiet). Keyboard check. Screen resolution check. Hibernates correctly? Check. WTF I can’t believe this all works out the box. The touchscreen? Check. The stylus pen check. Flipping the screen over to a tablet check. Jesus H.

Ok, everything just works. Huh. Who’d have thunk?

Install programs, log into accounts, jeez this laptop is snappier than on windows. Make things pretty for my wife and install some fun games and stuff.

Finished. Ez. Why did I wait so long? Google was wrong - it was cake.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Did you get your audio volume fixed? My ThinkPad is so quiet on Linux (Silverblue) that it's hard to use it for anything with media.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not with the volume buttons on the keyboard. Alsamixer helped a little - it was set to ~70% (whatever the line between white and red is). But it’s still quiet. But you can drive it way beyond 100% through software. The problem is pushing the volume button stops at 100%.

The lazy way is to open pulseaudio, grab the slider bar and put it to say, 150%. You can also do it with a terminal command. Somewhere close to the top of a Google search somebody mentioned they bound their volume keys to that terminal command/script where each press resulted in a 5% increase or decrease in volume - allowing the button presses to go beyond 100%. I may or may not do this.

I wouldn’t go so far as to say it doesn’t work - merely one of the annoyances I was expecting. Except I expected many of these and this is the only one I encountered.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I know about those "workarounds", but it's ridiculous that the regular UI (including media buttons!) is more or less useless 🙂

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I recall that at least on KDE, in the audio settings you can enable the ability to go WAY past 100% volume.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Does this then also work for the media buttons? Then maybe I should try to rebase...

[–] DeathByDenim 3 points 6 months ago

Yes, but you have to enable the checkbox "Increase maximum volume" in the audio widget on the taskbar panel.