My laptop is an MSI Sword 15 A11UD. But I’m really looking for a program that analyses and projects problem areas and supported/unsupported hardware

  • Deckweiss@lemmy.world
    99·
    5 months ago

    There is a website to check which hardware is supported (on which distro). You can look up your laptop there, but beware that it is crowdsourced, so there might have been tinkering involved before submitting the results or the results may be outdated.

    Click on “probe your computer” then check the results to see what your current setup supports.

    https://linux-hardware.org/

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      That is pretty sweet. I start up my docker service, run the docker command and ctrl-click the link it pops up in Konsole, and voila! I see exactly what I noticed in my system, mainly that the RGB bullshit doesn’t work which hurts my feelings not at all.

    • Rudee@lemmy.ml
      4·
      5 months ago

      This is also super useful for people deciding what to buy, when the vendor would obviously not be keen to let you plug a USB into their device and boot into the scary Linux