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Did this for a while in school. It's quite handy and more portable than a regular laptop. What's unfortunate is that you really can't do much coding on it unless you have a desktop you can ssh into. Depending on your use case though this might not be an issue.

EDIT: I guess I should mention I'm on the 1+5t with the 8g option with vanilla oxygenOS.

@sigfried I'm working on an image recognition program that uses darknet and I need CUDA functionality so I went out and bought another card. Didn't have another place to put the amd card so in it stays.

There are some games using DX12 with multigpu support as well and I can use it for that as well.

I didnt realize the physx thing though. Boo.

@linuxxx I wasn't too far behind thankfully but I could see I was heading that way which is why I quit trying to fix it. I'm just working on my Senior Project though so I just need to log hours and spend a couple more hours a few nights and I'll be back on track.

@Linux yeah it would do the same thing on Ubuntu. I changed my grub.cfg according to what was posted above because it's a quick fix. Hasn't happened in the past 4 hours of uptime so I think that it's good now. But like I said, it was at random so it could still happen.

@tokumei I spent 2 years in Brazil and all showerheads are heated.

Sometimes the wires are exposed too and if you stretch your arms up too high you get a bit of a shock.

@PrivateGER if I understand you correctly i put that in the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT variable in the grub config and then update grub yes?

@gruff There is no setting for that in my BIOS for ASUS X-370

I attached the picture of the log here.

@PrivateGER wow I'm an idiot. I never thought to look there. This morning I opened up dmesg and tailed it. 3 hours later it starts happening and I manage to switch over to it and there are messages there that don't look good. I wasn't able to screenshot it so I had to take a picture with my phone. Time to head over to arch forums because I'm not sure what these logs are saying. Perhaps my processor is bad???

@HackedPixels in my experience everything seems to work in tty. However, I don't know if it's because it just hasn't gone down yet in the couple of hours that I've used it in tty. I've had it stable for 8 hours before and then hang. The very nature of it makes it a little impractical to try specific things.

@dufferz I forgot to mention that the Rx 480 is an AMD card so I'm using amdgpu. Not a problem with Nvidia.

I've not been able to switch to tty when this happens. When it starts freezing up, I can't get it to register a key press on the keyboard.

@Paramite
Deepin
Gnome w X
Gnome w Wayland
KDE
i3 (my preferred choice)
Sway (i3 in Wayland)
Xfce

@dufferz it boots and works fully and is very usable. I have full access to journalctl which tells me nothing.

And then at some point it just falls apart. It seems like everything freezes but not at once. When I move the mouse during this time it just hops to one place, waits a second, then hops to another and waits a second and does this until it's completely unresponsive.

I don't know when or where it happens and it's seemingly random. I'm thinking it's something with the graphics card as it never happens when I'm in the tty. But then again, I can't be sure of that because I don't use the tty often enough to see if that is the case as I can't find anything that reliably triggers it. I thought it was the browser for a bit so I switched from Firefox to chromium. Same problem. And then I thought maybe displaying web was too difficult. Then it does this when I'm using vscode. Perhaps it's the X server and use Wayland. NOPE

I'd file a bug with amdgpu but I can't reliably replicate it.

@ScribeOfGoD I've had them dual booted for a while. The installation is always successful but assuredly it just quits out. I've been trying to fix it for a year but I've just given up.

My measly laptop works great however.

@duckWit in the past 6 years I've used Linux on all my machines I've never had a problem and they have always worked perfectly just out of the box. The file system is more intuitive and package managers are amazing tools to use.

This is the first time I've had a problem and I'm not sure what I'll do without my beloved Pacman. :(

@irene unfortunately my laptop only has one drive. :( I would use Linux exclusively, but my wife uses the computer

I follow this on my desktop though.

@Condor the issue is something with the microcode. I found the issue reported here https://community.amd.com/thread/...

I tried the workaround mentioned later, but it still happened. I'm gonna try using the python program mentioned to check a couple things.

@Condor I tried a few flavors. Arch, Manjaro, Antergos, Ubuntu, Elementary, and Deepin. All had the seemingly random bug.

@devTea They have been installed together for a year and this is the first time this has happened. That's why this is so bizarre for me.

@netctl Both entries were in a grub, but I think a windows update erased my grub file.

Don't forget to enable virtualization in the BIOS. I know a lot of people complain about it not working and they forgot this. It worked on my old AMD system that is now 9 years old (lol bulldozer)

You're not dumb. Just inexperienced. :)
But no, I don't. Sorry. :(

Well it depends on what you want to do. I think Unity is fine for 3D games but it's typically a bit obtuse. I'm personally a fan of gamemaker studio as it's easy to work with and is built for a 2d Sprite based game.

Just about any laptop with an SSD will do. If you like Ubuntu but it hangs like you said, consider Xubuntu. It's a lot less resource intensive.

@RememberMe I've only used lynx and it's pretty nifty. It ignores JS I think and just uses html and css. Because of that, it's pretty light weight to load pages. I use it when a need a simple answer to things or digging through stack overflow.

Im a weird person because I actually really do. In fact, when I finish school next semester that is what I want to do.

I have the 5t. How is the 6?

If you haven't used a Linux OS first Ubuntu is generally people's go to for their first foray into it although people will tell you that it's very bloated (and they will be right). However, it makes things incredibly simple for new people to use.

I noticed the elementary tag. Elementary is essentially if Ubuntu and MacOS had a love child. Again, their focus are people new to the Linux ecosystem but are familiar with Macs.

I'm personally a big fan of Manjaro and it's the easiest arch based distro I think, but I've had a few problems here and there that might be difficult for newer people to solve.

I always read manuals and how-tos' quite closely @sSam. I'm that guy that busts out rulebooks when people are trying to play house rules. I'm looking at you Monopoly and Uno.

Done. @1989