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Marwellus

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From: Stuttgart, Germany

Registered: 2024-11-24

Posts: 3

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Lenovo IdeaPad S540-14IWL (2020, old but works quite well)

OS: Arch Linux x86_64 
Host: 81ND Lenovo IdeaPad S540-14IWL 
Kernel: 6.12.1-arch1-1 
Uptime: 2 hours, 59 mins 
Packages: 858 (pacman), 7 (flatpak) 
Shell: bash 5.2.37 
Resolution: 1920x1080 
DE: GNOME 47.1 
WM: Mutter 
WM Theme: Adwaita 
Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3] 
Icons: Papirus-Dark [GTK2/3] 
Terminal: kgx 
CPU: Intel i7-8565U (8) @ 4.600GHz 
GPU: Intel WhiskeyLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics 620] 
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce MX250 
Memory: 4127MiB / 7661MiB

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Chaseis4344

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Registered: 2024-06-29

Posts: 4

Re: Laptops which run Arch

My dad had an old laptop he kept in a corner, with the amount of space he had left over from installing windows (7, I think?) he always needed a usb in it to use it, so he told me if I can make use of it and have space left over, that I could have it, so I put Arch on it as an experiment and never looked back

 
Chaseis4344@arch-towns
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OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Host: HP Stream Laptop 14-DS0xxx
Kernel: Linux 6.11.10-hardened1-1-hardened
Uptime: 1 hour, 46 mins
Packages: 555 (pacman)
Shell: bash 5.2.37
Display (CMN14C4): 1366x768 @ 60 Hz in 14" [Built-in]
DE: Budgie 10.9.2
WM: Mutter(Budgie) (X11)
Theme: Arc-Dark [GTK2/3/4]
Icons: Papirus-Dark [GTK2/3/4]
Font: Cantarell (11pt) [GTK2/3/4]
Cursor: Adwaita (24px)
Terminal: terminator 3.12.7
Terminal Font: Source Code Pro (10pt)
CPU: AMD A4-9120e RADEON R3, 4 COMPUTE CORES 2C+2G (2) @ 1.50 GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon R2/R3/R4/R5 Graphics [Integrated]
Memory: 1.71 GiB / 3.69 GiB (46%)
Swap: 23.04 MiB / 4.00 GiB (1%)
Disk (/): 8.99 GiB / 23.65 GiB (38%) - ext4
Local IP (wlo1): 172.16.110.14/24
Battery (Primary): 47% [Charging, AC Connected]
Locale: en_US.UTF-8

Falstaff

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Registered: 2008-11-03

Posts: 83

Re: Laptops which run Arch

Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 5 (AMD) works well with Arch. I haven't tested Bluetooth yet, which I believe is not working yet.

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OS: Arch Linux x86_64 
Host: 21ME001MUS ThinkPad P14s Gen 5 AMD 
Kernel: 6.12.1-arch1-1 
Uptime: 1 hour, 4 mins 
Packages: 658 (pacman) 
Shell: bash 5.2.37 
Resolution: 2880x1800 
WM: sway 
Theme: Adwaita-dark [GTK3] 
Icons: Adwaita [GTK3] 
Terminal: terminator 
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics (16) @ 5.132GHz 
GPU: AMD ATI c4:00.0 Phoenix3 
Memory: 2041MiB / 55880MiB

Last edited by Falstaff (2024-12-08 04:34:16)

Zod

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From: Hoosiertucky

Registered: 2019-03-10

Posts: 633

Re: Laptops which run Arch

MSI Raider a18 hx a7vig.

In order to connect to wifi, during setup, I used wpa_supplicant because impatience. [1]
Ethernet works out of the box. Other then that it's been smooth sailing.
Edit: iwd has some problem with ath12k and this hardware, when I sort this I'll update.

##Update: This is how I supported the qualcom  WCN785x wifi
The firmware:

git clone https://git.codelinaro.org/clo/ath-firmware/ath12k-firmware

Install the firmware:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lenovo … en_5#Wi-Fi

Config for iwd:

# cat /etc/iwd/main.conf
[General]
EnableNetworkConfiguration=true
ControlPortOverNL80211=false

The lappy:

OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Host: Raider A18 HX A7VIG (REV:1.0)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.7-2-cachyos
Uptime: 2 hours, 53 mins
Packages: 822 (pacman)
Shell: fish 3.7.1
Display (AUOC8A7): 2560x1600 @ 240 Hz in 18" [Built-in]
WM: Hyprland (Wayland)
Theme: Sweet [Qt], Sweet-Dark-v40 [GTK2/3]
Icons: BeautyLine [Qt], BeautyLine [GTK2/3]
Font: Hack (10pt, Regular) [Qt], Hack (9pt) [GTK2/3]
Cursor: bibata-modern-ice (24px)
Terminal: kitty 0.38.1
Terminal Font: Hack-Regular (15pt)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D (32) @ 5.46 GHz
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU [Discrete]
GPU 2: AMD Radeon 610M [Integrated]
Memory: 4.10 GiB / 30.52 GiB (13%)
Swap: 0 B / 16.00 GiB (0%)
Disk (/): 15.66 GiB / 914.83 GiB (2%) - ext4
Local IP (wlan0): 192.168.1.164/24
Battery (BIF0_9): 100% [AC Connected]
ocale: en_US.UTF-8

[1] It didn't work well, out of the box, with iwd: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc WCN785x Wi-Fi 7(802.11be) 320MHz 2x2 [FastConnect 7800] (rev 01)

Last edited by Zod (2024-12-29 16:16:49)