Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring

• wubiuefi

  32 1,011 2.1 C++

  fork of Wubi (https://launchpad.net/wubi) for UEFI support and for support of recent Ubuntu releases

I wish Ubuntu didn't kill Wubi tho. We used that at my first workplace on laptops with Windows and it was so damn good. There is a new fork [0] but it's a hit and miss with modern UEFI and especially with Windows 11 (had to use it for some reason). And other distros never had an option like this afaik, none does as of today. But I know it's all about Docker, VMs, or WSL nowadays yet Wubi covered a niche segment which was pefect.

0, https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi

• unetbootin

  101 2,264 4.8 C++

  UNetbootin installs Linux/BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive

  

UNetbootin[1] still works fine last I tried it.

[1] https://unetbootin.github.io/

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• firmware-lenovo

  26 114 0.0

  Missing firmware for Lenovo Thinkpad hardware

  

ya that service has been very helpful and tracking issues is great, but there can still be issues when installing. For example, I am dealing with a bug found in this list of issues: https://github.com/fwupd/firmware-lenovo/issues on one of my laptops.

• qualcomm_android_monitor_mode

  18 264 1.9

  Qualcomm QCACLD WiFi monitor mode for Android

I've had mixed results on laptops. I've never bothered to make the fingerprint reader work, that just isn't my thing. I've had decent luck with all the standard functions video, audio, storage, keyboard, mousepad, wifi on most models of Lenovo and Dell in the last decade. I've had mixed results on Asus laptops, especially the recent ones. The biggest challenge I've had is finding out ahead of time what wifi chipset is used and this has only affected me when using tools like aircrack-ng [1]. The way I quickly test how a laptop will behave is to boot Kali Linux [2] into ram. Sometimes a sales person at a computer store would let me do this on a demo model.

[1] - https://www.aircrack-ng.org/

[2] - https://www.kali.org/

• linux-surface

  481 4,485 9.1 Shell

  Linux Kernel for Surface Devices

  

I have been using this on Intel SL3 works great https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface

Also works on AMD but did get crashes sometime and sometimes need to boot into Windows to reset audio….

• SaaSHub

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