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I have an OMEN 15 laptop-dh1xxx and it is currently running Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE) but I had came to the realisation that  I couldn't control the RGB of its keyboard. It had one setting that can be turned off and turned on but cannot be changed to my liking. The setting features the left of the keyboard being blue, the middle of the keyboard being green and right of the keyboard being red. There isn't a Linux equivalent to Light Studio and Omen Gaming Hub. Come on HP, I thought that you cared about us people who use Linux. Are you importing OMEN Gaming Hub and Light Studio onto Linux? If so, do you have a planned released date and will it be available to download from flatHub? Yea, Linux is not ideal for gamers but why would that prevent you HP people from making a Linux version for these apps?

Clastic
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Despite my using Linux distros on my desktop for many years. I would advise AGAINST doing that on any HP PC -- for several reasons.

First, HP provides no support for Linux, so if you run into difficulties during the install, which you WILL, you will get no assistance in those from HP.  If you replace the Window OS with a Linux distro, or add a Linux distro, then you assume full responsibility for maintaining that PC -- including solving any problems with booting the other OS and/or installing the other OS.  Modern PCs with UEFI, instead of the older BIOS, are especially difficult to install because you have to go into the UEFI settings and make several changes before you can even boot from a USB stick -- and we are unable to assist in that work.

Second, PCs (especially laptops) use specialized drivers that only the OEM (in this case, HP) supplies.  Those drivers are usually not available in the Linux community, forcing you to use generic drivers which even if they do work, will often not provide the full functionality of the hardware.  You will then be coming back here asking for drivers, and we will then be telling you that HP does not have any Linux drivers.

Third, if your plan is to dual-boot Windows and Linux, you need to know that BOTH OSs have to in installed in the same mode. So, if you change the mode to Legacy to install Linux, then when you try to reboot into Windows, it will not boot because it has been installed in UEFI mode. If you then change back to UEFI mode, Linux will no longer boot.



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