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  Debian "testing" is looking really great on my new "Skylake" PC Jarle Aase <jgaa@jgaa.com> - 2016-01-20 08:50 +0100
    Re: Debian "testing" is looking really great on my new "Skylake" PC Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-01-20 18:00 +0100
      Re: Debian "testing" is looking really great on my new "Skylake" PC Jarle Aase <jgaa@jgaa.com> - 2016-01-20 18:50 +0100
        Re: Debian "testing" is looking really great on my new "Skylake" PC Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-01-21 17:20 +0100
          Re: Debian "testing" is looking really great on my new "Skylake" PC Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> - 2016-01-22 16:00 +0100
    Re: Debian "testing" is looking really great on my new "Skylake" PC Charles Kroeger <ckrogrr@frankensteinface.com> - 2016-01-20 23:50 +0100
      Re: Debian "testing" is looking really great on my new "Skylake" PC Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-01-21 00:30 +0100
        Re: Debian "testing" is looking really great on my new "Skylake" PC Charles Kroeger <ckrogrr@frankensteinface.com> - 2016-01-22 05:00 +0100
    Re: Debian "testing" is looking really great on my new "Skylake" PC Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2016-01-20 23:50 +0100

#163310 — Debian "testing" is looking really great on my new "Skylake" PC

I built myself a new PC with an Intel i7-6700K ("Skylake" architecture) 
- and I was prepared for lots of grief and trouble. However, installing 
Debian "testing" yesterday, from the latest Amd64 snapshot, was 
absolutely painless.

I'm using kde as desktop, and it looks really great. I installed the 
system on a Samsung SSD 950 Pro with a super-fast PCIe M.2 interface. No 
problems with any drivers. Kde runs perfectly on three monitors using 
the built in graphics system on the i7 processor.

The mother-board is an a Asus Z170 "PRO GAMING" (Z170-A was out of stock).

I just wanted to share the good experience :)

Jarle

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#163325

On Wed, 20 Jan 2016, Jarle Aase wrote:

> I built myself a new PC with an Intel i7-6700K ("Skylake"
> architecture) 
> - and I was prepared for lots of grief and trouble. However,
> installing Debian "testing" yesterday, from the latest Amd64
> snapshot, was absolutely painless.
> 
> I'm using kde as desktop, and it looks really great. I installed the 
> system on a Samsung SSD 950 Pro with a super-fast PCIe M.2 interface.
> No problems with any drivers. Kde runs perfectly on three monitors
> using the built in graphics system on the i7 processor.
> 
> The mother-board is an a Asus Z170 "PRO GAMING" (Z170-A was out of
> stock).
> 
> I just wanted to share the good experience :)

What if anything special like disabling Secureboot did you do to
facilitate this painless install?

I'm buying a new notebook as a replacement for this aging desktop (8
years old, Wheezy 64-bit) in the next few months and plan to install
Stretch on it once it's Stable or a late testing beta.  Haven't
decided which make of notebook yet, but Asus is one of the brands I've
been considering.  Lenovo, Dell, Acer are some others. So, any details
of your install you can share will be appreciated.

Thanks

B

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#163328

Den 01/20/16 18:56, skrev Patrick Bartek:
> What if anything special like disabling Secureboot did you do to
> facilitate this painless install?
Nothing really. I specified "Other OS" and enabled virtualization - 
that's all that I changed in the BIOS setup.

> I'm buying a new notebook as a replacement for this aging desktop (8
> years old, Wheezy 64-bit) in the next few months and plan to install
> Stretch on it once it's Stable or a late testing beta.  Haven't
> decided which make of notebook yet, but Asus is one of the brands I've
> been considering.  Lenovo, Dell, Acer are some others. So, any details
> of your install you can share will be appreciated.
I installed Debian Stable on a Lenovo G50-80 (i7) and a Lenovo ThinkPad 
x250 (i5) late last year. Both machines had Broadwell architecture. Both 
installs went painless. No problems at all, except that I had to use 
non-free/binary blobs to get wi-fi working.  (Interestingly, the i5 
ThinkPad outperforms the i7 consumer model on C++ compilations). I have 
not bought any Asus laptops recently. Acer I stay as far away from as 
possible. Anything I have ever bought from them have caused regrets - 
usually because of poor quality or very poor performance. I have no 
experience with Dell laptops. I used a Dell workstation last year, and 
it worked great with Debian Stable.

Jarle

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#163388

On Wed, 20 Jan 2016, Jarle Aase wrote:

> 
> 
> Den 01/20/16 18:56, skrev Patrick Bartek:
> > What if anything special like disabling Secureboot did you do to
> > facilitate this painless install?
> Nothing really. I specified "Other OS" and enabled virtualization - 
> that's all that I changed in the BIOS setup.
> 
> > I'm buying a new notebook as a replacement for this aging desktop (8
> > years old, Wheezy 64-bit) in the next few months and plan to install
> > Stretch on it once it's Stable or a late testing beta.  Haven't
> > decided which make of notebook yet, but Asus is one of the brands
> > I've been considering.  Lenovo, Dell, Acer are some others. So, any
> > details of your install you can share will be appreciated.
> I installed Debian Stable on a Lenovo G50-80 (i7) and a Lenovo
> ThinkPad x250 (i5) late last year. Both machines had Broadwell
> architecture. Both installs went painless. No problems at all, except
> that I had to use non-free/binary blobs to get wi-fi working.
> (Interestingly, the i5 ThinkPad outperforms the i7 consumer model on
> C++ compilations). I have not bought any Asus laptops recently. Acer
> I stay as far away from as possible. Anything I have ever bought from
> them have caused regrets - usually because of poor quality or very
> poor performance. I have no experience with Dell laptops. I used a
> Dell workstation last year, and it worked great with Debian Stable.
> 
> Jarle
> 

Thanks.  Based on your input (and others), I'm eliminated Acer from my
list.  I, too, have experience with Thinkpads and Asus notebooks, and
have had few problems installing Linux on them.  Since Dell has their
Ubuntu option, I'm thinking they are Linux compatible as well.

Thanks, again.

B

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#163449

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On Jan 21, 2016 9:45 PM, "Patrick Bartek" <nemommxiv@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Thanks.  Based on your input (and others), I'm eliminated Acer from my
> list.  I, too, have experience with Thinkpads and Asus notebooks, and
> have had few problems installing Linux on them.  Since Dell has their
> Ubuntu option, I'm thinking they are Linux compatible as well.
>
> Thanks, again.
>
> B

I have a Dell Inspiron 15 3543 based on Broadwell architecture. I am using
Debian Stable which runs pretty well and am really loving the performance.
However, there were certain problems associated listed which were easily
resolved after following tinkering:
1. installing xserver-xorg-video-intel from backports to prevent crashing
of GNOME.
2. Getting broadcom proprietary drivers from non-free sources either from
Debian or Ubuntu.

If you want to have a new laptop, all I would suggest is to avoid Broadcom
wireless card. One should rather go with Intel as it is doing appreciable
contribution to FOSS.
#FrustratedBroadcomUser

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#163343

On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 08:50:02 +0100
Jarle Aase <jgaa@jgaa.com> wrote:

> I just wanted to share

Where's Stan Hooper when you need him? I miss your hardware critiques Stan better
weigh in here.

-- 
CK

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#163347

On Wednesday 20 January 2016 22:25:55 Charles Kroeger wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 08:50:02 +0100
>
> Jarle Aase <jgaa@jgaa.com> wrote:
> > I just wanted to share
>
> Where's Stan Hooper when you need him? I miss your hardware critiques Stan
> better weigh in here.

Maybe we've lost him?  I do hope not!  But he doesn't seem to have posted for 
about 18 months.

Lisi

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#163430

On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:30:03 +0100
Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday 20 January 2016 22:25:55 Charles Kroeger wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 08:50:02 +0100
> >
> > Jarle Aase <jgaa@jgaa.com> wrote:
> > > I just wanted to share
> >
> > Where's Stan Hooper when you need him? I miss your hardware critiques Stan
> > better weigh in here.
> 
> Maybe we've lost him?  I do hope not!  But he doesn't seem to have posted for 
> about 18 months.
> 
> Lisi

Stan's like Emiliano Zapata, he's always out there on his white horse.

-- 
CK

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#163344

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On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 09:36 +0200, Jarle Aase wrote:
> I built myself a new PC with an Intel i7-6700K ("Skylake"
> architecture) 
> - and I was prepared for lots of grief and trouble. However,
> installing 
> Debian "testing" yesterday, from the latest Amd64 snapshot, was 
> absolutely painless.

I just wanted to say, thanks for taking the time to post this!

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5

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