Elitebooks and Gentoo

[RIA77]

Hello and thank you for many years of support!

I have plan to buy Elitebook 645 g9 (Ryzen model).
I have doubts, not just regarding hardware but more with that HP is "tied" with Windows.
Can I compile with 25 w average power ?
Is HP going to "cap" it at some safe level ?
Any recommendations, does this laptop works for Gentoo ?
Thank you.

[sublogic]

Hello and thank you for many years of support!

I have plan to buy Elitebook 645 g9 (Ryzen model).
I have doubts, not just regarding hardware but more with that HP is "tied" with Windows.

I have an Elitebook 745 G6. I haven't tried the camera but I assume it works. The fingerprint reader doesn't work. Other than that, no issues.

Can I compile with 25 w average power ?
Is HP going to "cap" it at some safe level ?

Okay, one issue: sys-power/powertop can't see the wattage so I can't say about your 25 W target.
Ryzen 7, 4 cores, 16 GB; it emerges firefox in about 90 minutes, nodejs in 2.5 hours. Frequency scaling works fine. Cooling looks good, I don't think it ever needs to throttle.

Any recommendations, does this laptop works for Gentoo ?
Thank you.

Yours will be a different model but I expect it will work fine. Mine came with Windows but I installed Gentoo over it without trying to preserve anything. I should have kept the EFI partition, there were utilities in it that might be useful. But grub installed just fine on an empty EFI partition and lets me get to the firmware if I want to.

Start with a distribution kernel like gentoo-kernel-bin; once you have something that boots you can always switch to gentoo-sources and trim the kernel config.