Hello forum!
Can I just install Linux Mint or Ubuntu on my ASUS TUF Gaming A16 Advantage Edition FA617NSR-N4127?
I use it’s power for blender, which supported on Linux too. So I am considering switching.
The main question: Will everything work fine? I mean I can install something manually, no problem, but I afraid that there is something fully incompatible.
I am new to privacy community, so… Yeah…
TUF A16 Advantage Edition? What a time to shine I’ve been researching this.
Right so as far as I know, unless Mint or Ubuntu has gotten the drivers, iirc the keyboard and trackpad doesnt work but they do work on a distro like arch and iirc Fedora works too.
Safe bet on both with one I would recommend as the safest bet being Bazzite since they have an asus ISO that would work out of the box very well.
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=400080
here’s where I got the idea that it wouldnt exactly work on Ubuntu/Mint
This thread too
but if things have changed in a year or 2 later for ubuntu/debian then great but as far as research goes, Bazzite (or I guess generally Fedora) or Arch/EndeavourOS honestly. But if you can I would try a live cd and see if it works on Mint/Ubuntu and if not still then these 2
I hope that helps.
May I ask why not Bluefin? Bazzite is gaming-orientated so it probably wouldn’t be best if you’re using it for non-gaming related tasks.
Warm welcomes to you 
. Fwiw, if you’re new, I would recommend doing some research about Linux, even if it’s light, since it’s quite a different environment to Windows.
I personally took months until I had the courage to install Linux, so take your time. There’s no rush.
There’s my post where I asked questions about a few concerns with Linux, and the discussion there may be helpful.
I have experience with raspbian (for raspberry pi) so Linux is known for me. Just never set it on laptop.
Posted thread on their forum:
While Bazzite is gaming oriented I don’t see how it can’t be repurposed for general use like blender.
Anyway as I said mostly because they provide ISO images dedicated to Asus on the download making it the safest bet. But as I encouraged OP, Try the distros on a flash drive.
I gotcha, however do you not have any flash drives you can use to test it as a Live CD?
if you want to test different linux distributions, a great way to go about it is to install ventoy on a USB stick, then all you have to do to try a new distro is to copy the .iso there and boot from that. That way you don’t have to overwrite the drive each time
I agree.
I do have to say I have found arch to be Problematic on Ventoy, I had to use my seperate flash drive, Maybe it’s just me but yeah overall that.
You should try to find your specific laptop model on linux-hardware.org
Looking for your specific hardware seems hard though your submodel has no entry
Stuff mostly works. If you are on an older kernel such as 6.2, you might not have Realtek Wifi.ASUS TUF Gaming A16
Yeah I wouldn’t rely on something like this for that purpose, just stick to what we said.
Had I wish I had known this site prior, I would have discovered that the fingerprint reader in my current daily driver isnt working
I’m not super up to date on it but using Ventoy might be a bad idea. I skimmed through the issue once more and the forum post but it looks like nothing has been addressed after all this time.
Thanks for the heads up. Rufus and Yumi are alternatives that should also work for trying out new distros.