I have an Alienware laptop, and I’m guessing all the proprietary bells & whistles won’t run on Linux. Which is mostly fine - I don’t need all the dumb glowy nonsense. But I don’t know whether the computer will work without its special Alienware drivers and whatnot. The battery & GPU management systems in particular barely even work on the OS they’re meant for; I’m not optimistic they’d work at all on anything else. It seems like there’s a high likelihood that testing out Linux would be a disappointing time sink. So I guess, the answer why I haven’t switched is a combo of pessimism + laziness?

However, if anyone happens to know of a distro that works on an Alienware 17 R5 (AMD), please let me know! I’d love to switch.

Tom Homan is a bitch.