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 pro…

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 recomm…

[image] anon39279085: safest bet being Bazzite 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.

[image] Jimmi: I am new to privacy community Warm welcomes to you :slightly_smiling_face:. 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 inst…

[image] Astatine: recommend doing some research about Linux I have experience with raspbian (for raspberry pi) so Linux is known for me. Just never set it on laptop. [image] anon39279085: int or Ubuntu has gotten the drivers Posted thread on their forum: https://forums.linuxmint.com/…

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.

[image] Jimmi: Posted thread on their forum: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=439786 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 [image] Search results for 'ASUS TUF Gaming A16' A database of all the hardware that works under linux St…

Yeah I wouldn’t rely on something like this for that purpose, just stick to what we said.

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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.

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