Building a Linux Computer?

[Stephen Partington]

I can get access to an iFixit kit. they are immensely handy in working on a
laptop.

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 7:37 PM, Eric Oyen <eric.oyen at icloud.com> wrote:

> 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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>
> Stephen
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Stephen
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