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  Help Vlad <susorov.vlad@gmail.com> - 2016-03-16 15:30 +0100
    Re: Help arian <debian@semioptimal.net> - 2016-03-16 15:50 +0100
      Re: Help <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-03-16 16:00 +0100
    Re: Help ire27@hushmail.com - 2016-03-16 16:20 +0100

#165478 — Help

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I have an Asus x556u  i5 6200u GeForce 920m 2gb, support that laptop Debian?
Will it work in full power?
And what version should i install (i386 or AMD64)?

Thanks

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best way to go, grab yourself a live image [1] and try it out yourself. Do yourself a favour and disable the 920m, it's only some 20-40% faster [2](linux numbers may be way off and may favour intel) than the HD 520 and will help you only sometimes get something playable - if you game at all, that is. However it would suck energy disproportionally, both electrical and mental.

There is no reason to go i386, and you hopefully have at least 4GB RAM, so you'd loose out on that if you go i386 => amd64.

[1] https://www.debian.org/CD/live/
[2] http://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphics-Cards.13849.0.html?type=&sort=&deskornote=0&or=1&search=920m+520&month=&benchmark_values=&gpubenchmarks=0&professional=0&archive=1&dx=0&multiplegpus=0&showClassDescription=0&condensed=0&showCount=0&showBars=0&showPercent=0&gameselect%5B%5D=379&gameselect%5B%5D=377&gameselect%5B%5D=375&gameselect%5B%5D=373&gameselect%5B%5D=371&gameselect%5B%5D=368&gameselect%5B%5D=366&gameselect%5B%5D=361&gameselect%5B%5D=359&gameselect%5B%5D=355&gameselect%5B%5D=353&gameselect%5B%5D=351&gameselect%5B%5D=346&gameselect%5B%5D=344&gameselect%5B%5D=342&gameselect%5B%5D=336&gameselect%5B%5D=332&gameselect%5B%5D=334&gameselect%5B%5D=329&gameselect%5B%5D=316&gameselect%5B%5D=308&gameselect%5B%5D=297&gameselect%5B%5D=293&gameselect%5B%5D=263&gameselect%5B%5D=249&gameselect%5B%5D=217&gameselect%5B%5D=214&gameselect%5B%5D=204&gpu_fullname=1&codename=0&architecture=0&pixelshaders=0&vertexshaders=0&corespeed=0&shaderspeed=0&boostspeed=0&memoryspee
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On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 03:42:57PM +0100, arian wrote:
> best way to go, grab yourself a live image [1] and try it out yourself. Do yourself a favour and disable the 920m, it's only some 20-40% faster [2](linux numbers may be way off and may favour intel) than the HD 520 and will help you only sometimes get something playable - if you game at all, that is. However it would suck energy disproportionally, both electrical and mental.
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> There is no reason to go i386, and you hopefully have at least 4GB RAM, so you'd loose out on that if you go i386 => amd64.

To be more specific, the architecture of the i5 is "amd64" (as it is called
in Debian, because AMD first came up with it, while Intel was playing
around with Itanium). Amd64 is also sometimes known as as x86_64.

Yes, it's confusing. See [1] for the whole kaboodle.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64
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#165483

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Install AMD64 as your processor supports it. Unless you have a
particular reason for needing a 32bit install?
My previous ASUS laptop ran Debian great. Although, Debian and Ubuntu
both had trouble recognizing my battery in my last Dell Laptop. I am
sure there will be some tweaking involved with things like the
touchpad.
Give the live cd a shot and see what you think.
https://www.debian.org/CD/live/

On 3/16/2016 at 10:24 AM, "Vlad"  wrote:I have an Asus x556u  i5 6200u
GeForce 920m 2gb, support that laptop Debian?Will it work in full
power?And what version should i install (i386 or AMD64)?
Thanks 

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