FWIW I’ve never had much luck getting fingerprint readers to work on my laptops when dual booting - the current Machine (asus g14) is no exception. Everything else works fine though.
I had an aluminium chassis’d huawei that worked well with mint. I believe their 14” matebook series actually have some usable ports too. My matebook x pro had just two usb-c, one of which was thunderbolt and was annoyingly unreliable. On Tue, 20 Sep 2022 at 18:26, Peter Merchant <petermerch...@hotmail.com> wrote: > A friend of mine is wanting a new laptop and asked if I would post his > request here - Yes he uses Linux. > > Does anybody know of a good source for him? > > I've looked at Linux built laptops including Dell and all seem to be > overpriced compared to popular Windows orientated companies. > I had a beautiful Huawei Al chassis, fingerprint and a good spec at a > marvelous price from Amazon under £500. I dual booted Ubuntu 22.04 but > could not get Sound, microphone or fingerprint to work! All I got from > Ubuntu was criticism of my post and no solutions offered. I tried at least > a dozen links from Google and made no progress, I returned the laptop on > the last day of returns and got refunded 2 months later. > I've looked at reconditioned from Amazon sellers but reductant to trust > their service/guarantee. > > I wonder if you could ask the group for any suggestions around ,£500. 256 > /512 SSD 8GB memory i3/5 or AMDr3/5, Al chassis, 14"+/- , fingerprint and > backlight UK keyboard. > > Over to you guys. > Peter > > -- > Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2022-09-06 20:00 > Check to whom you are replying > Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk > New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk > -- Sent from my iPhone -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2022-09-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
