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What did you switch to?

I switched to a Razer Blade Stealth. I'm not a gamer and I've never used a Razer product, but I like this laptop. I had to ditch Windows, running Debian.

Have you been able to get good hardware support? Trackpad, function keys, etc. Can you sleep and restore?

Not OP, but I fixed sleep and restore on an HP Elitebook yesterday by installing the Nvidia display driver, the nouveau driver seemed to be what was stopping it from waking. That has been my experience with every PC with a dedicated GPU.

For what it's worth, the Razer Blade Stealth does not have a dedicated GPU, just a regular integrated Intel HD 620 like many other Kaby Lake ultrabooks.

The Razer Blade (regular, non-Stealth) is the model with the dedicated GPU.

I've been seriously considering picking up the fully loaded model with the desktop 1080 GPU, but I'll want to dual-boot windows 10 and some variant of debian for gaming and to experiment with machine learning, respectively. I'm afraid I'll end up spending several weeks trying to get everything set up correctly and then hit some dead end after it's too late to return it. It's the same price as the new MBP but the specs are crazy[1].

[1]http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade-pro#spec...

Edit: Looks like there are some resources around the webs:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:sT9Hs6...

https://insider.razerzone.com/index.php?threads/new-razer-bl...

I bought mine from the Microsoft store. I've heard Razer's support is not the best and returning products to them is not the most pleasant experience.

I've found that the Arch Linux Wiki is a pretty good resource for all of the Razer Blade laptops.

I installed xf86-input-synaptics to support the trackpad a little better. Touchscreen works. Sleep works.

The best resource I found for this laptop and linux was actually on the Arch Linux wiki:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/razer#2016_version_.28R...

Interesting, as hardware-wise that is the closest to a non-apple air that I can find.

Does anyone have any links to someone running Linux on a razor blade stealth as their daily driver?

MBP Retina, 13", 2015: 12.35" x 8.62" x .71" -- 3.48 lbs

Air: 12.8" x 8.94" x .68" -- 2.96 lbs

RB Stealth: 12.6" x 8.1" x .52" -- 2.84 lbs

I bought the late 2016 edition, i7 kaby lake, 16GB RAM, 256GB M.2 PCIe, 12.5" IPS touch QHD (2560 x 1440 px). It really does run well and I'm using it as a daily driver.

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