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Razer Certifying Their First Laptop For Linux: Razer Blade 18 RZ09-0582 Review (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] 88 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Regardless of opinions on Razer this is a win. The bug corps are finally paying a bit of attention

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  • [–] 38 points 4 months ago* (6 children)

    There has been corps like dell offering Linux distros like 10-15 years ago, it just never was an attractive option compared to windows

    But windows is killing itself

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  • [–] [S] 35 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    This is a gaming laptop though, it's a different market

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    why they test it with Ubuntu then

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    You can run games on any distribution, they're basically all the same...

    Although I wouldn't have picked Ubuntu, but anything else would be fine.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Yeah like the example dudeface give, Dell have been offering Linux options since a decade ago in my country. Just have to go to their commerce website instead. Same with Lenovo here.

    And both of them offer Ubuntu with the expected discount of a Windows license.

    I assume Canonical did a lot of legwork to make big brands like that to adopt Ubuntu. IMO it is still the more well known Linux distribution that seems more suited for the non techy segment of Dell and Lenovo customers.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    Yeah, I bought a Dell laptop for that reason. Turns out the spec I wanted wasn't available with Linux preinstalled, so I had to buy the Windows machine and install it myself anyway. At least I never had any real driver issues or anything else like that. Laptop lasted 10+ years running Linux practically the entire time.

    Props to any OEM who supports Linux, bigger props to anyone who ships Linux preinstalled, biggest props to those who favor Linux by default and charge extra to install Windows or refuse to do it outright!

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  • [–] [S] 24 points 4 months ago*

    Razer could bring the biggest bump to Linux market share since the Steam Deck, or possibly even more

    The current biggest weakness of Linux is lack of OEMs shipping it. Most people do not want to install an OS themselves, or even know that it's possible.

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    • [–] 43 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Massive win. Too bad the year of the Linux desktop happened with the explosion of RAM prices. lol

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    • [–] 28 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    A Razer Gaming laptop with Ubuntu and an Nvidia GPU. Weirdest thing ever. Still a win for Linux.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    That’s not true. It could have been a Windows laptop, don’t forget.

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    • [–] 19 points 4 months ago

    Didn't see that coming. Razer products are just garbage and have extremely annoying drivers in windows. What could they possibly bring to the table for linux?

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    [–] 16 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    Did they finally fix the build quality?

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I've been rocking a mouse that has a broken middle mouse click from them that's only like 3 years old so no. Thankfully the 4th and 5th buttons work so I can just remap to those buttons.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    And unfuck their support?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    i didnt know they had bad support too, yikes.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Their support blamed my friend swapping the SSD with another one for the main board dying. There was nothing wrong with the SSD. He put it in another computer and it worked just fine for years.

    We will never even consider buying one of their piece of shit laptops again.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    I have an older Razer Blade 13 that was a replacement for a lower end model that had battery issues. It was well within the warranty period (had it less than two months). I had been emailing their support for a couple weeks before getting tired of the wait and just tagged them on Twitter and asked for help. Had a replacement in less than 48 hours. Their actual support is trash, but the social media team seems to be the way to go when it comes to getting actual help.

    EDIT: For clarification, I sent them back the bad one and hadn't heard from them for awhile.

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    • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    The price? $16,000.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Even just using the actual price would have made the point ($7k maxed out)

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    • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Are razer drivers in Linux also with mandatory razer account creation, login and activation?

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    • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Razer laptops are the biggest POS buggy garbage. Half the track pads don't even work out of the box for 4k+

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    [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    I've been happily running Linux on my 2021 Blade 14 for years. NVIDIA support is still somewhat of a problem but that's not unique to Razer. It's gotten way better over the years but some games still stutter a bit or run slower than Windows. Otherwise, it's a fine experience.

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    [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Ubuntu 🥀

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    [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Is this why they've been working on a web app for configuration instead of Synapse? This is a win for everybody.

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    [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Comes with a bloated battery

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    [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    I'm sure its really certified if you have to run a tainted kernel, but maybe that's just me

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    [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    But why Ubuntu? Fedora would have made far more sense.

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    [–] 18 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Woah, this could be a big deal

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    • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Damned fingerprint magnet.

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    [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Still will be overpriced crap

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    • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Smart marketing technique

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