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I have this laptop getting tired sitting in a drawer and asks me to work 🤪

What Linux distro can run on it? Preferably one with KDE plasma a a DE.

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[–] fxt_ryknow 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've run both Opensuse Leap and Nixos with good luck. As someone else mentioned, it really just boils down to the wifi adapter being shit... But that aside, everyrhing else seemed to work well for me with leap and nix.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Was thinking open suse slowroll also. Dont know whether Nvidia will work..

[–] fxt_ryknow 1 points 1 year ago

Nvidia breaks on me at least twice a year using Tumbleweed. But... That's my own fault, as I just update almost daily... And too many times I've done an update that breaks nvidia. I can't speak to this issue with leap, as I've not run Leap on my machine with an nvidia card.