My laptop is an MSI Sword 15 A11UD. But I'm really looking for a program that analyses and projects problem areas and supported/unsupported hardware

  • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    a quick and dirty way to find out if your hardware is supported is to try out a live usb distributions that runs entirely off of a usb stick and never makes any permanent changes to your system.

    it will run MUCH slower than a regular installation; but if you see all of your hardware and drivers enumerated in lspci; you'll know that it works out of the box.

    you should know that this limits you to the distros that have live usb images only; but if you go with mainstream debian, fedora, arch, etc. you'll instantly know that downstream distro's are capable of supporting with that hardware with that version of the mainstream distribution that they're forked from (eg ubuntu from debian; manjaro from arch; suse from redhat; etc.)

    i used this method extensively when i was new to linux and distro hopped a lot; it taught me a lot when i first started out.