Mint and Laptops

[MurphCID]

So what sorts of laptops have we installed Mint on here at the forum?

[MurphCID]

Drops some comments as well.

[Mhoxie]

I've installed Mint 20.3 Cinnamon on an Asus TP202NAS 12" convertible laptop. It runs well, touchpad and touchscreen work. Screen rotation is borked -- Mint and MX think that normal orientation is actually rotated counterclockwise, or something. Also, under Windows the keyboard and touchpad would automatically shut off when the lid was rotated past 180 degrees, doesn't work under Linux. Finally, the touchpad doesn't follow screen rotation, but this doesn't come up much since the auto-rotation not working means I don't often use it other than as a laptop.

I did install Gnome 3.something on it, which has a "lock rotation" feature, and use it as a tablet, manually shutting off the touchpad via a function key, and doing the same with the keyboard from the terminal with Xinput.

[Pierre]

the Laptops that work well were:
- Acer
- Lenovo
- Toshiba

the Laptops that were problematic were:
- Hewlett Packard
- Dell

most of them, had an Expired Windows System,
as that is why they were converted to an LinuxMint System.

[MurphCID]

the Laptops that work well were:
- Acer
- Lenovo
- Toshiba

the Laptops that were problematic were:
- Hewlett Packard
- Dell

most of them, had an Expired Windows System,
as that is why they were converted to an LinuxMint System.

Oh heck, let me correct the poll, I completely forgot Acer and Toshiba...!

[stephanieswitzer]

I've installed Mint on a couple of MacBook Pros as well, although they do tend to run a little hotter.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

the Laptops that work well were:
- Acer
- Lenovo
- Toshiba

the Laptops that were problematic were:
- Hewlett Packard
- Dell

most of them, had an Expired Windows System,
as that is why they were converted to an LinuxMint System.

Oh heck, let me correct the poll, I completely forgot Acer and Toshiba...!

You should add two more options to the poll: Clevo and Other.

[Portreve]

So what sorts of laptops have we installed Mint on here at the forum?

Where's Apple on the list?

I've only installed LM in my MBP and other people's desktops, plus my HP tower.

[dave0808]

I got one of the first generation Dell XPS 13 models. I only booted Windows once in order to resize its own partition, as the Windows disk manager was the recommended tool to use.

Installing Mint wasn't straight forwards. As I recall, it required a custom kernel for a few months until the Mint release "caught up". It got a little like my day job for a while, but I was determined. It has served me well and still goes strong. These days Mint installs without any issues (I tend to do fresh installs on that one, rather than an update), and the latest generation model costs about 50% more than what I paid

[dollyp]

I have a Clevo N141CU configured and supplied by https://laptopwithlinux.com/linux-laptops/, a company based in the Netherlands. Really good laptop, came preinstalled with Mint 20.1 when I bought it though the company installs other Linux flavours. All the Fn keys etc. work as they should (unlike my old Lenovo) and the only thing wrong with the keyboard is the Windows symbol on the menu key.

I am very happy with the laptop and the Dutch supplier's service has been excellent.

David

Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon

[JohnBdigital]

I have been comfortable using an LG Gram 17 with Linux Mint

Also have it working great on an Asus

[Samarian Sunset]

I had a 14 year old HP 6730B Notebook, Intel duel core and 4gb ram and that ran Mint Cinnamon 19.2 fine.

I just installed Mint Cinnamon 20.3 on a HP G6 450 Probook and it runs blazingly fast thanks to the I7 quad and 8Gb ram.

No problems with installing on either laptop.

[RollyShed]

Acer Aspire 5560, Acer Aspire E1-522, Acer Aspire 5741G, Asus X550A26, Acer Aspire 515-52-51YG model N18C1, Lenovo B41-30, eMachines Acer, ASUS TP200S, Asus T100TA, Samsung NP354, Toshiba Satellite L750, HP Pavilion g, Samsung NP270ESE, Samsung NP355, HP Compaq 6730b, 8 of - Toshiba Tecra.

That's a few of them.

What are we supposed to be voting on? How many, how good, how... what?

[MurphCID]

So what sorts of laptops have we installed Mint on here at the forum?

Where's Apple on the list?

I've only installed LM in my MBP and other people's desktops, plus my HP tower.

I could only have 10 choices.

[AZgl1800]

I can't remember all the different old clunkers that I have installed Mint on, or at least tried to.

One of them was a goverment issue 30 lb chunk of metal with a spinning HDD that I replaced with a SSD.

Even so, it was 32 bit, and Unbuntu would not run on it....
have had several Dells of various years, a couple of HPs,
and currently a 15 year old Sony laptop,
a 3 year old Acer laptop,

and 3 ASUS laptops of various ages.

[cheb]

My current laptop is a Lenovo ThinkPad. I've noticed any problems but it is only really used for browsing, with occasional test fiddling.

Previous was a Macbook Air, 2007 model IIRC. That required a bit more setting up, wifi and graphics IIRC.

[smurphos]

Dell Inspiron (8th gen Intel) - current main machine on Cinnamon 20.3 - no problems
HP (2nd Gen Intel) - previous main machine - now relegated to Media Server duties running Ubuntu Server - no problems on Mint or Ubuntu
Inherited ancient Toshiba XP laptop with some old Celeron processor - was my Media Server running 18.x XFCE for a number of years - no problems
Acer Chromebook (CYAN) - some slightly more modern Celeron processor - - managed to get 19.x running smoothly on it, but only with some packages/configs borrowed from gallium OS, sound-card profiles from Github and a mainline kernel. It's back running ChromeOS for the time being.

[Jymm]

I have a System 76 Darter Pro and two older Dells Inspiron laptops. I have had extremely good performance with HP ProBook laptops for non-Linux hardware in the past.

[MurphCID]

I have a System 76 Darter Pro and two older Dells Inspiron laptops. I have had extremely good performance with HP ProBook laptops for non-Linux hardware in the past.

I have the same System 76 (two of them one 1st gen, and now the 2nd gen), and I, also, have had really good luck with Linux on HP laptops.

[MurphCID]

So far Lenovo seem to be the most popular, I wish I could have added two more choices to the poll, but I was limited to 10. I am suprised at no Tuxedo or Slimbook computers here.