By: KING_BOB

KING_BOB — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:37:03 +0000

My laptop had some hardware problems so opted to buy a new Asus Vivobook with an oled screen i7 ultra processor which includes the new ARC integrated graphics. Seeing that Ubuntu is shows the most collaboration with intel on this I installed Kubuntu 24.10 whose GUI installer worked flawless and simple. After updating I found the intel instructions for using their latest driver at this link >https://dgpu-docs.intel.com/driver/client/overview.html . This enabled me to add their repo to my sources and install the driver and related libs. I am very pleased with the result of the latest driver. I don't game but I do video and the ARC works extremely well for that. Great shading, perfect saturation and color balance. Enough horsepower to work quick, not stutter and have a seamless result. Kudos to Ubuntu for advancing this tech with intel. Two quarks. The laptop has an led backlit keyboard, the arc driver & etc. does not have a tool to control that. It is what it is. However after I update and make sure all is well with a reboot. I then shut it down, when I turn it on the first UEFI shows the ASUS logo I focus looking when it disappears. Disappears, I then count one thousand, two thousand and immediately at two thousands press the escape key 3 times. Now Kubuntu will boot and led is locked on max brightness and white in color. This eliminates the pluse of diming and the slow change or one to another color. The second quark will no doubt resolve itself with time. The version of kio-admin Kubuntu uses is not compatible with some module of plasma so it does not function. This impacts giving Dolphin root access. I have no problem with that but some might. Other than that Kubuntu 24.10 is a polished well done OS that serve your needs reliably. I highly recommend it.

By: Ubuntu user

Ubuntu user — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 15:10:39 +0000

looks interesting but i will staying on lts version but i do like seeing what they are doing. i think when next lts version comes out i might wait a extra year before upgrading to make sure all the bugs are found.

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By: KING_BOB

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