Building a Linux Computer?

[Matt Graham]

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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