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Lenovo downward dogs with Yoga BIOS update supporting Linux installs

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High end Hell laptops are similary linux-unusable. They use Nvidia chipsets in the high end and the recent Hell stock does not have Optimus off button.

If you do not turn off Optimus you cannot use the binary nvidia driver and you are limited to the open source one which has no thermal management. That, surprise, surprise, leads to the laptop getting as hot as its (HELL) name suggests and crashing before you are finished installing an full OS on it.

So Hell is as guilty as Lenovo if not more so. Just guilty in a different way.

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