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‎03-22-2019 01:42 PM

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Product: HP 15q ds-0009tu
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)
  • Is it possible to upgrade to a dedicated graphics driver like NVIDIA Geforce or AMD Radeon?
  • Does the laptop support Linux? There have been users facing problems like Wi-Fi not working,etc. while installing Linux.
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‎03-22-2019 03:08 PM

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No the video is soldered to the motherboard and not upgradeable. Your laptop should have no problems with a recent build of a good Linux distro....Ubuntu 18.04 for example. I know there are some Ubuntu haters out there but its a good place to start. If you are really worried run Ubuntu off the installer disk as a "Live" system where it runs entirely from the thumb drive without making any changes to your Windows install. Its a little slow but not as bad as you might expect and will let you know in advance whether sound and wifi will work which are the two biggest problems. There are workarounds for just about any hardware its just not always fully working out of the box. Nothing like a few years ago when Linux was the Wild West. For the most part now it "just works". 

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