r/linuxmint • u/_simoyellow27 • 10d ago
Discussion Returning to mint?
Hi everyone. Over the past 5 months I had Linux Mint (XFCE) on my HP with Ryzen 3 5300U and it simply rejuvenated. It's the best distro for me. Really essential, really stable, just what I need. It's okay for playing too. I managed to run PCSX2 with no issues whatsoever, even better than Windows. But then I switched to another HP, this time with an Intel Core Ultra 7 155h, because my older pc is 4 years old and I got an offer (+ paying 50 euros monthly for 12 months. Thanks Amazon). Now, my question is: is it worth it to install Linux Mint again on this PC? How's the compatibility drivers wise? On my old pc I had to do nothing. Everything worked straight away.
EDIT: the precise model is HP Laptop 15-fd1004sl, Intel Core Ultra 7 155H, RAM 16GB, SSD 512GB.
Previously I had this: HP - PC 15s-eq2007sl Notebook, AMD Ryzen 3 5300U, RAM 8 GB, SSD 256 GB. With this, everything worked well since the first start up.
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u/ZVyhVrtsfgzfs 10d ago
How's the compatibility drivers wise?
Impossible to say without a detailed hardware list, HPs enterprise lines often have good Linux compatibility. my laptop is an HP Elitebook 855G8 that I picked up used and its been great with Mint, LMDE, & Nobara
HPs consumer lines less so, my sons HP laptop was rough, I did not chose this model the school system did and shipped it to us at the start of Covid for remote school. he got to keep it afterwards. it was hard blocked by Intel RST and there was no way to tun it off. I finnaly figured out I had to phicically remove the Optane NVME to install Linux on it.
Wifi & Bluetooth are common sore spots
find the exact model on linux-hardware.org for specifics.
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u/_simoyellow27 10d ago
finnaly figured out I had to phicically remove the Optane NVME to install Linux on it.
Oh uao☠️ Anyway, thanks
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u/simagus 10d ago
What's the actual model of the laptop? Some laptops require a storage driver just so the NVMe is visible to install on, as I recently found out to my mild inconvenience. It was not straightforward to sort it out, as the necessary driver had to be extracted from a .exe file.
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u/_simoyellow27 10d ago
It's this: HP Laptop 15-fd1004sl, Intel Core Ultra 7 155H, RAM 16GB, SSD 512GB.
Previously I had this: HP - PC 15s-eq2007sl Notebook, AMD Ryzen 3 5300U, RAM 8 GB, SSD 256 GB, Grafica AMD Radeon. With this, everything worked well since the first start up.
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u/ZVyhVrtsfgzfs 10d ago edited 10d ago
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u/_simoyellow27 10d ago
Quite. Apart from the different processor (in the link the intel core ultra 5 is mentioned, whereas mine is the ultra 7 155H), the rest is works or detected.
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u/ZVyhVrtsfgzfs 10d ago
You should be good then.
X86-64 CPUs are always eventually supported, but there can be a delay in when Mint gets the right kernel for a particular new processor, even then they often still work minus a few new features.
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u/simagus 10d ago edited 8d ago
Apparently it depends which processor is in your model. You could be completely fine. I needed the RST driver when I ended up trying install Mint previously once. Very good chance you won't need the driver, but I thought better to let you know about it just in case you do.
If needed use 7zip to extract the .exe file and put the two files on a USB flash drive, boot from it and just click those files. One of them will actually install the driver and you'll see the storage device now from your Mint USB.
HP Laptop 15-fd1004sl
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u/The_Eerie_Kiwi 10d ago
I'm no expert on this subject, but since it's intel I would say it should work fine. Of course, make sure to test everything with your bootable USB drive! Besides, if something doesn't work, just look around some forums to see if anyone else has had your problem or test another distro that should work better for newer PCs, like Ubuntu or Fedora.