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lviggiani

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Registered: 2014-02-28

Posts: 144

Linux on Huawei Matebook 14 AMD 2020

Hi, I'm planning to buy the Huawei Matebook 14 AMD 2020 wich features Ryzen 5 4600H APU as well as touchscreen. Except for the fingerprint reader, which I don't expect to work (and I dont really care about it), has anyone tried Linux on such laptop or similar hardware? Is there any known limitation? Including the touchscreen.
I could not find anything on the web so far.
Thanks in advance!

Black_file

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Registered: 2020-10-07

Posts: 3

Re: Linux on Huawei Matebook 14 AMD 2020

Hey,
Yes, it works it was my last laptop with archlinux but if you haven't buy this Laptop plan to buy Lenovo PC for better compatibility

P.S: Huawei not support BIOS update or something other on Linux

mcloaked

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From: Yorkshire, UK

Registered: 2012-02-02

Posts: 1,360

Re: Linux on Huawei Matebook 14 AMD 2020

I have recently installed Arch on an HP Envy x360 15 with AMD Ryzen 7 4700U with a touchscreen.  It works well with recent kernels, and the touchscreen works without special setting up. With Plasma desktop, everything works well. Since BIOS updates are more work unless Windows is also available I set mine up with dual boot using rEFInd as the boot manager and it all works fine. ( You can prepare a usb key with BIOS updates using a separate machine running Windows but it is more effort) Using the standard method from within Windows 10 to shrink the internal ssd drive using the Window disk management facilities, and then partitioning the remaining available space during the Arch install to create the ext4 partitions I wanted as well as a swap partition, worked well.  The EFI partition that was already in existence was then mounted to /boot/efi and /boot is a directory on the root partition.  This worked with no problems. So although this is more recent hardware than yours it seems that current AMD CPU/GPU is supported well with the current kernel.  I haven't tried to test suspend, but there were previously some reported issues with suspend on AMD hardware, though that may by now have been resolved.

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Mike C