Installing on new Inspiron 7559

[chris_heatley]

I recently purchased a dell inspiron 7559 with a core i5-6300HQ processor.

I am looking for information on getting a kernel appropriate for my laptop, and any specific install instructions.

Thanks!

[QDR06VV9]

I recently purchased a dell inspiron 7559 with a core i5-6300HQ processor.

I am looking for information on getting a kernel appropriate for my laptop, and any specific install instructions.

Thanks!
That's pretty vauge(kernel??)
Any way see if this sheds any light...http://askubuntu.com/questions/689380/dual-boot-on-dell-inspiron-7559-laptop/691750
You would probably want Ubuntu 15.10 or any DE that suit's your taste.
Another Link to Veiw....http://software.techforums.space/software/ubuntu-1510-on-dell-inspiron-7559-f97a840a.html

[grahammechanical]

As a general rule, the newer the hardware the newer the Linux distribution.

As for instructions, a lot will depend on whether the machine comes with another OS pre-installed or not.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI

Regards.

[chris_heatley]

Thanks. I am vague as I haven't used Linux in a long time. I have heard that there is a kernel "ready to go" for this laptop with no driver issues.

I just want whatever is easiest to install so that I can begin re-familiarizing myself with the environment of Linux.

[QDR06VV9]

Ubuntu 15.04 (say to the current Linux 4.2 mainline kernel PPA) or run likely any other modern distribution out there, you won't get kernel mode-setting support and working 3D acceleration for Skylake's HD Graphics... You'll get a low resolution display and fall-back to the LLVMpipe Gallium3D driver. Yes, even with modern kernels.

On Ubuntu the latest mainline kernel (they're stock kernel avoids this issue) you need to append to your kernel command-line: i915.preliminary_hw_support=1. When adding that to your kernel command-line in GRUB (or editing your GRUB configuration for it to be persistent) the i915 DRM driver initialized fine on these kernels and lit up the i5-6600K's HD Graphics 530 just fine. With Linux 3.19, 4.0, and 4.2 are the kernels tested so far.
From this forum http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2307347
Just a heads up..

[chris_heatley]

Would I be able to get support for my GeForce gtx 960? I thought there was some kind of "thing" that I could install that is already specific to this particular laptop? I am just unfamiliar with the process of finding it, and searching inspiron 7559 didn't return anything helpful that I could find

[QDR06VV9]

From this forum http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2307347
And Here.....http://software.techforums.space/software/ubuntu-1510-on-dell-inspiron-7559-f97a840a.html
And if I find any thing else Relevant I will post here..
Kind Regards and Good Luck

[chris_heatley]

Many thanks for your time! I will let you know how I do once I finish reading that stuff. I have a partition set aside (from my windows 10 drive) but wanted to make sure I had good info before installing.