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Never buy an HP laptop for linux. They often try to have some gimmicky special audio hardware with terrible driver support
ty, noted.
My first experience with switching to Linux a few years ago was on an outdated, at the time, ~$400 HP laptop. Switching from Windows 10 to EndeavourOS, and everything just worked, including audio.
In fact, it still works great whenever I turn it on like a few times a year.
Many hardware companies have the same problem, they can output some decent hardware, but some other series are true lemons (especially for Linux/Unix, but for a lesser extent, for that other system as well). And beforehand, it's not always easy to know which is which. It's a common issue with laptop makers where the hardware is often more esoteric.
Same with any Apple Intel based iMac
Driver support is non-existent. Audio via the speakers worked but no volume control, Bluetooth, thunderbolt, mic etc didn't work. Even the headphone socket didn't work.
Shit even the gpu (AMD) did work properly. Despite being a 5k panel resolution is stuck at 4k.
Sigh. Would have been a great Linux box if I could have gotten it to work
Which distro did you use? Or is it the same for all?
My elitebook 840 works fine on linux
hp victus16 is working fine with wireplumber. never buy hp because the anti customer practices, terrible build quality and supporting israel with hardware.