How is Manjaro behaving on 11th Intel CPU and Xe GPUs?

Non-technical Questions
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I am going to buy a ThinkPad X13 and I want to know if the Intel version (i7-1165G7 and Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96 Tiger Lake) or the AMD version(Zen 3 and Vega 8 Renoir) is more suitable for me, does anyone have a test?

Yes I know maybe much of you are using very old computers running Linux so I wonder if this question is good here.

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I want to know mainly about kernel and graphics card support. Which one supports better? video-linux has some freezes on my Intel UHD-620 maybe same with these sites:

Arch Wiki – Cinnamon https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cinnamon#Installation

Arch Wiki – Intel Graphics https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_graphics#Installation

KDE Community – Plasma 5.9 Errata Plasma/5.9 Errata - KDE Community Wiki

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I’m not sure if this is helpful but you could lookup the specific hardware you have on https://linux-hardware.org/?view=trends and from that point you know how well the hardware is supported in the kernel and if there are issues. I assume that if consumer hardware runs on one flavor the probability is high that it works on another.

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The best match is this. This website is good but it still lacks much new computers like X13/T14/P15 after 2020.

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I’m using a yoga14s laptop with Ryzen R7 5800H and Vega8 Renoir, and Manjaro runs smooth on my laptop.
The only hardware problem is that there will be a ‘Failed to start Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of backlight:acpi_video0’ from systemd when booting. However that is because it uses amdgpu_b10 instead, so this ‘problem’ doesn’t really affect anything.
(BTW all the ThinkPad X13s with Ryzen CPU I can find from jd.com are the older ZEN2 models. Is Lenovo about to update that model?

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Yes, lenovo has not show out new Zen3 Thinkpad yet, I have been waiting for this for a long, long time. Those are last year’s version.

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Dose your Wi-Fi work?

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Works perfectly

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I would be interested in this as well. I have a new System 76 Darter Pro with the latest and greatest chipset. I would suspect that I need a 5.14 Kernel or even the 5.15 since I would not be sure that the 5.10 Kernel would support Xe Graphics.

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I have the same CPU and GPU (Iris Xe) and Manjaro works smoothly and without issue, for the most part. Good temperatures, intelligent fans and dynamic CPU performance governor (intel_pstate).

However, when resuming from suspend, there’s a chance that the system will appear unresponsive for several seconds. Sometimes it resume instantly, and other times I have to wait several seconds. This might be a KDE/Plasma issue, not specific to my hardware or Linux itself.

EDIT: Just noticed you already acquired the laptop? How has it been for you with KDE? Do you notice the same “delay” when resuming from suspend with KDE?

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Why not the starlabs mk V, since it has the coreboot firmware and it’s made for linux?

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  1. watchdog cannot be disabled, I have tried all the things I can do with https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/249654/message-at-shutdown-watchdog-did-not-stop and Improving performance - ArchWiki
    Update: fixed after testing update 10-05, maybe because new kernel has found

  2. keyboard delay on pamac-gui when searching for pkgs

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Huh, I noticed that too. I thought it was just the new Pamac version, but I don’t notice the same keyboard delay on a slower and older system (with an Nvidia GPU).

Maybe it’s Intel GPU related? Maybe Pamac uses some GPU rendering? :woman_shrugging:

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