2-in-1 laptops that work with Gentoo

audiodef

Girlfriend might be looking for a 2-in-1 in the near future. All our machines use Gentoo. If you have installed Gentoo on a 2-in-1, I'd love to hear about your experience, as well as which model it was. I'm also interested in hearing about models that did not do so well with Gentoo. This would be my first time ever installing Gentoo on a 2-in-1.
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kingoftherats · Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2019 12:57 am Post subject:

I have no experience with installing Gentoo on 2-in-1s, but a Reddit post from 2017 suggests that the kernel may not have support for all of a 2-in-1's hardware.

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

I believe Lenovo stuff is well-supported in Linux. You'll want to avoid anything ARM-based - in the absence of overwhelming evidence it's usually a nightmare to run a custom OS on them.

audiodef · Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2019 8:08 pm Post subject:

Thanks, guys, these are good tips.

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Fitzcarraldo · Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2019 8:33 pm Post subject:

Have you seen the following?: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Dell_XPS_9365
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audiodef · Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2019 10:13 pm Post subject:

Very nice, thanks.

My girlfriend decided on the Yoga C390. It currently will work with Linux with a couple of minor issues, but I've told her to use it with Windows for a while until I have time to sit down and hammer out a Linux install, fixes and all, without it taking two months.

Thanks for the replies.

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