PC build for LMDE

[xcom]

Hello, I'm a windows user but now I'm thinking about changing to linux, I have a raspberry pi that I used to learn debian and now I want to use LMDE on my desktop. My PC die and now I'm getting a new one, but I want to know that all parts work on LMDE before I buy it. This is the PC:

APU: Amd A8-6600K
RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR3 8GB 1600MHz
SSD: Samsung 120GB 840 Evo
Motherboard: Asus A55BM-A/USB3
Power Supply: Corsair cx 430w M

I don't think the APU is a problem, Mesa 10.1 works great, what version does LMDE uses? The thing that might be a problem is the motherboard, I heard linux has problems with sound, it has a Realtek chip ALC887 does that work on linux? The other problem is the bios, it uses UEFI. So does this build work on LMDE?

[AlanWalker]

Hello, I'm a windows user but now I'm thinking about changing to linux, I have a raspberry pi that I used to learn debian and now I want to use LMDE on my desktop. My PC die and now I'm getting a new one, but I want to know that all parts work on LMDE before I buy it. This is the PC:

APU: Amd A8-6600K
RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR3 8GB 1600MHz
SSD: Samsung 120GB 840 Evo
Motherboard: Asus A55BM-A/USB3
Power Supply: Corsair cx 430w M

I don't think the APU is a problem, Mesa 10.1 works great, what version does LMDE uses? The thing that might be a problem is the motherboard, I heard linux has problems with sound, it has a Realtek chip ALC887 does that work on linux? The other problem is the bios, it uses UEFI. So does this build work on LMDE?

Can UEFI be disabled in the Asus BIOS? If not, why do you want a UEFI motherboard?

Regards,

[xcom]

I don't care about UEFI, but I don't have a choice, now all motherboards have it. I don't know if I can disable it, in the motherboard's manual it says:

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BIOS:
64 Mb Flash ROM, UEFI AMI BIOS, PnP, DMI2.0, WfM2.0, SM BIOS 2.6, ACPI 4.0a, Multi-language BIOS, ASUS EZ Flash 2, ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3, My Favorites, Quick Note, Last Modified log, F12 PrintScreen, F3 Shortcut functions and ASUS DRAM SPD (Serial Presence Detect) memory information.

What is "SM BIOS 2.6"? Is that a normal bios that I can use to boot in to LMDE?

[Conni]

I don't care about UEFI, but I don't have a choice, now all motherboards have it. I don't know if I can disable it

As far as I know, all UEFI boards are having a Compatibility Support Module, which basically means, that UEFI can be switched off. You have to change several UEFI settings in order to do that, for instance you have to disable Secure Boot.

Regarding LMDE and your hardware selection: Google helps a lot here, look for

• Asus A55BM-A Debian
• Asus A55BM-A Linux
• Asus A55BM-A Ubuntu

I would be optimistic, because the selected ASUS mainboard was released almost a year ago. But there is no guarantee. The main focus of LMDE is on stability, therefore the kernel is not brand new. You should be flexible. Two months ago I bought a laptop without an OS, it was released in September 2013. I wanted to install LMDE, but it was not possible too boot from Live-USB, at least not with my relatively superficial Linux knowledge combined with my laziness. If one distro does not boot on the spot, I am trying to boot another one.

LMDE is a great distro, but there are other great distros too. For instance SolydX is another extremely user-friendly and easy-to-install Debian-based rolling release with a shorter update cycle.

[wayne128]

I hope there is no confusion between
disable Secured boot
&
UEFI enable

I had a few comps, with UEFI, all of them have UEFI enable, and all have installed dual / multi-boot with Windows OS and Linux OS in msdos-partition


Here I just take a few screenshot from this Asus laptop.
Images are not sharp sorry.
But illustrate one thing, UEFI enable, on this Asus laptop, K42J, can boot either UEFI prepared OS, or legacy way of msdos-partition bootable OS in DVD/USB stick

In fact when I boot with msdos-partition's USB Drive (Seagate FreeAgent Go 0148),
there will be two USB flash for boot selection:
first one is the standard label
second one is UEFI version
as shown in this image





Hope these helps.
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[xcom]

I wanted to know if there was something fundamentally bad about the hardware or not, some hardware is never supported or will always have problems, if it's just a matter of using a newer kernel than no problem, I can use some other distro if LMDE doesn't work, but I really like Cinnamon. Looking at Debian 8.0 Jessie (testing) it has kernel 3.14, that's very new and is going to eventually be upgraded to 3.16 so the kernel shouldn't be a problem or does LMDE have an older kernel?

I had a plan B if LMDE didn't work, try using antergos with cinnamon, but arch is nothing like debian and I'm very new to linux. I never heard of SolydXK but looks great but cinnamon has problems running on it, looking at the forums, and there are only one developer and a few testers working on SolydXK and it's very new, It might not last...

There are tutorials of people installing linux with UEFI, so it does work on some distros. I thought only windows laptops had secure boot, in the motherboard's manual it doesn't say if it uses secure boot or not, but if it doesn't or can be disable, can I use UEFI with LMDE?