Tested laptops
7 laptops tried: 3 work, 2 partly, 1 with a fix pending, 1 not working. Every row is a report from someone who booted the stick, not a guarantee.
| Laptop | Result | Works | Does not work | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dell Latitude 5300 Core i5-8365U (Whiskey Lake), UHD 620, 16 GB | Works | Everything tested: boot, sign-in, Play Store, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, sound, touchpad with gestures, brightness, battery, install to the internal NVMe | Suspend and resume (not supported anywhere yet) | The maintainer's machine; the project was built on it. |
| Acer Aspire Lite AL15-52 Core i5-1235U, 8 GB, 512 GB NVMe | Works | Wi-Fi, display, touchpad, keyboard, sound, brightness, camera, Bluetooth | – | Reported on kernel #32/#33 in live mode. Needed two firmware fixes (Realtek Wi-Fi firmware, and the Intel AX201 Bluetooth firmware name ibt-0040-1050.sfi), both in firmware release v34 and later. A stick made before that needs a rebuild, or an Update from a fresh stick. |
| Lenovo ThinkPad T470 Intel 7th gen (Kaby Lake) | Works | Reported as working with no setup at all | – | Short report, no details on individual devices yet. |
| HP OmniBook 7 Core Ultra 5 225U, 16 GB LPDDR5, 512 GB NVMe | Partly works | Touchpad, keyboard, brightness, display (live USB) | Wi-Fi (Intel Wi-Fi 7 BE201) | Sound, webcam and Bluetooth were not tested. A very new platform: Wi-Fi has no fix yet. |
| Dell XPS 16 (2026) Intel Core Ultra (details not given) | Partly works | Boots and runs | Screen refresh rate, Wi-Fi, camera | The reporter says a Linux kernel option fixes the screen on this model. MODOPTS in gbos.cfg can now set driver options, so it can be tried without a rebuild. Wi-Fi and camera are open; a MIPI camera needs more than a driver. |
| Framework Laptop 13 Pro Core Ultra 5 325 (Panther Lake), 16 GB, 1 TB NVMe | Fix pending | Boots; black screen after choosing live boot on the reporter's stick | Display on sticks built before firmware v35 | Cause found: the xe graphics driver could not load its Panther Lake GuC firmware. Firmware release v35 includes it; a patch zip exists for older sticks. Waiting for the reporter to confirm. |
| HP 14-ne0013dx Intel (details not given) | Does not work | – | Did not work for the reporter | No logs yet. Post gbos/logs/boot-N/hwdetect.txt from the stick and we can look. |
Based on reports from people who tried it, last updated 2026-10-17. Results change as fixes land: a row says what was reported, not what the latest build can do. Post yours in Hardware Compatibility with your hwdetect.txt.
Patterns so far
- Business and mainstream laptops from 2017 to 2022 (Latitude 5300, ThinkPad T470, Aspire Lite AL15-52) work with little or no setup.
- Newer Core Ultra machines boot but run into missing pieces:
xegraphics needs its firmware (Framework 13 Pro), and Wi-Fi 7 cards (OmniBook 7, XPS 16) have no working driver and firmware pair yet. - Missing firmware is the usual cause of a device that does nothing.
hwdetect.txtlists it under "missing firmware".
Report yours
Boot the stick, then open gbos/logs/boot-N/hwdetect.txt on another computer. Post it with the laptop's model, CPU, RAM and what works in Hardware Compatibility, or on Discord. To try a driver option on your own, see MODOPTS in Configuration.