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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