Trisquel 11 on NV41PZ: First impressions
My NovaCustom NV41PZ laptop arrived a couple of days ago, and today I had some time to install it. You may want to read about my purchasing decision process first. I expected a rough ride to get it to work, given the number of people claiming that modern laptops can’t run fully free operating systems. I first tried the Trisquel 10 live DVD and it booted fine including network, but the mouse trackpad did not work. Before investigating it, I noticed a forum thread about Trisquel 11 beta3 images, and being based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and has Linux-libre 5.15 it seemed better to start with more modern software. Everything installed fine, and I didn’t need to adjust anything except to manually install GNOME since I prefer that over MATE. I’ve been running it for a couple of hours now, and here is a brief summary of the hardware components that works.