Building a Linux Computer?

[Eric Oyen]

well, 
I just acquired a 250 GB SSD and I have a dell latitude laptop (vintage 2013). I know what panel to remove to gain access to the HDD and ram, but my fingers aren't sufficient to find all the necessary bits to remove so that I can install the new drive.

anyone willing to help?

I am thinking of running it concurrent to the old style HDD in there (or at least until I can order a second one and have a dual boot SSD setup).

-eric

On May 23, 2018, at 2:47 PM, Stephen Partington wrote:

> I have dealt with latitudes for a while. The NVIDIA systems worked great with hybrid graphics (thanks to bumblebee!) but the one i had with a radeon GPU lost its gourd any time i tried to use the AMD GPU. I think the drivers are just better for nvidia in this regard.
> 
> Makes em want to dual boot linux on my laptop again....
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 2:13 PM, Matt Graham <mhgraham at crow202.org> wrote:
> On 2018-05-23 10:22, Jerry Snitselaar wrote:
> On Mon May 21 18, Stephen Partington wrote:
> I have found that intel/AMD hybrid laptop combinations are a real pita
> to work with and get all of your hardware running. [...] Intel has
> embraced Linux pretty well of late so aside from hybrid soft raid it
> all works.
> Intel has one of the largest kernel teams of any company right
> now. They do a pretty good job at getting support for their hardware
> into the kernel as quickly as possible
> 
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/hybrid_graphics says the hybrid graphics parts should be doable.  At least that's what I thought you meant when you said "intel/AMD hybrid".  There are also a lot of references to fooling with various settings ("AHCI mode in the BIOS") to get a spinny-disk + M.2 setup (hybrid soft RAID?) recognized properly.  I don't know for sure though, never tried to install anything on one of these.
> 
> Any idea what Dell systems you were having trouble with?
> 
> Yeah, we had many poweredge machines, and only one of them ever had any real trouble with Linux.  I think its hardware was flaky.  For every other machine, just install, configure, and it ran until the {disk, fan, CPU, NIC} pooped out.
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