Anyone tried Samsung Galaxy Book laptops?

Anyone tried installing Garuda on the Samsung Galaxy Book laptops? My laptop is relatively new - Samsung Galaxy Book 2 Pro using 12th Gen Intel Core i7-1260P 2.10 GHz.

When I tried Kubuntu a few months back, the OS was not compatible; it was missing numerous drivers to even get the basic functionality of the computer (touchpad / camera) working. I'd love to see Garuda driving this hardware!

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop/Samsung

Search the Arch Wiki for your notebook to see if it is compatible.

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Bookmarked! Thanks!
Looks like there's still some wrinkles to iron out!

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Kernel 5.17, out of date.
Just load Xfce (lts kernel) and other DE (zen kernel) and test ist by yourself.
Or spend this laptop to TNE , and he will test it for you. :smiley:

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I am a happy boy - and very happy to say, no issues with today's install of Garuda on my Samsung Galaxy Book 2!
W00t!!

I did do it in Dual-Boot even though I know of the recommendation not to - but so far, near 100% good.

It is having the frequently-reported problem of lack of screen brightness control (reported for Arch Linux and Ubuntu). I tried installing the icc-brightness-gen git - no change. It's bearable for now.

Great news is sound works fine - that was a problem for Ubuntu back in Jan.

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This might sound really dumb but maybe you could try installing redshift-gtk (typically used as a blue light filter thing but also has brightness and gamma settings available) and adjust the brightness through the config file. This is quite a jank solution but if it works it works :sweat_smile: it won’t apply to your login manager but after you log in, it should work. This is how I make my screen darker than the built-in settings allow at least lol

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