What is your desktop OS?

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VeryRob Plug your phone into a Thunderbolt dock and have fun

ClickClickDrone

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Just a note, but doing that requires a Pixel 8 or above.

aurocha

It varies between Fedora, Arch Linux or openSUSE Tumbleweed. I'm currently running the latter and not in the mood to change anytime soon. Separate encrypted /home directory, encrypted root w/ btrfs snapshots? openSUSE is very underrrated and it shouldn't.

Cheers,

WAU3604

Johnnyloans

You remind me of my current laptop. I got it about half a year ago as it seemed good with a Ryzen 7 7730U(more powerful than anything I currently have) and 40GB of Ram all for ~$600. After having it for months I found that they just really did me dirty. 8GB is soldered and 32GB are socketted in, so they are mismatched. And I have had consistent black screen crashes on both Windows and Linux if I go above 8GB, where the system gradually becomes unstable until complete crash/hardware reset(sometimes it would still be "stable" and just lock out any keyboard or mouse inputs so the hardware reset would be manual). These were pretty frequent, the worst I had was it crashing multiple times(like 6 or more) in one day. So I have to be very careful with what I am doing, and this really frustrates me as it messes with my workflow when it happens.

shapirus

WAU3604 8GB is soldered and 32GB are socketted in, so they are mismatched. And I have had consistent black screen crashes on both Windows and Linux if I go above 8GB

Memory mismatching shouldn't be a problem per se. Just today I installed an expansion 32 GB DIMM module into my Thinkpad T14 with a Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U which originally had a soldered-in 16 GB memory chip(s).

No problems whatsoever so far. Maybe it won't reach the top possible speed because of the single/dual channel matching stuff, but I don't care. I need to volume to avoid even thinking about needing to enable any swap.

You may want to run memtest86+ to see if your expansion DIMM module is all right.

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