I installed Debian on my Schenker XMG A507-vsy. First it seemed to work fine, but I discovered more and more problems: My screen has lag spikes whenever WiFi is on, the system freezes when I try to shut it down or open system info, download problems while using Synaptic lead to apt being uninstalled, my CPU temperature indicator claimed it was 511°C hot, ...
Someone told me that newer laptops (mine is from 2017) might be incompatible with certain distributions, so I tried searching for my model, but it's not listed.
Some sites I tried:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/s...at=532&ppuser=
https://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/Schenker
https://www.notebookchat.com/index.php?topic=40005.0

Does someone know which Linux distributions are compatible with this device? Or how I can find out?

Sadly I can not post my output of "lspci -n", because that also makes my system freeze. Some hardware info about my laptop can be found here: https://www.cyberport.de/?DEEP=1C10-32X&APID=14

Can you post the hardware specifications of your laptop?

P.S.: you need a distro with a new kernel, like Ubuntu 18.04.

You can also try Gentoo, if you want.

The last link in my post is it. It's German, but hardware parts are all English anyway.

Yes you should try Ubuntu/Kubuntu.
Uses Kernel 4.15.xxx

You can download it here: http://releases.ubuntu.com/

And Gentoo can be downloaded here: https://www.gentoo.org/

Full hardware info: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TFJ...w?usp=drivesdk

What has the database of PCI IDs to do with the notebook ?

Isn't that a list of all hardware components?

You should run hwinfo on your computer.

Why don´t you try Ubuntu / Kubuntu 18.04 with the Nvidia driver ?

hwinfo makes my system freeze. -.-

I can try Ubuntu live, but I don't want to install a new system until my bounty here runs out, so next Saturday: https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...s-when-wifi-on
And in a live system I don't see all the possible problems that it could have. So I'll try Ubuntu next weekend.

If you prefer KDE, then install Kubuntu.

If you want to learn Linux, then install Gentoo.

I saw that Shenker laptops are rebranded Clevo laptops. You might be able to get more info looking under that.

Result of live boot: No lag spikes with WLAN on, no crashes/freezes. CPU temperature indicator shows an incompatibility warning, so I should better not install it next time. I'll reinstall Debian now and see if it works properly if I just don't ever install "wobbly windows"* or the temperature indicator.

*I found some screen recordings: The first ones have no lag spikes, then there's one with "wobbly windows" installed that has lag spikes and then everything after that had them, too. So maybe it messed something up on my system that didn't go away after uninstalling it. But that still doesn't explain the freezes.

What info should I give? I already linked to the shop, where there's a lot of info about the hardware, and I've also linked a copy of /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids in a comment, which is extremely detailed. If you also want the output of "lspci -nnk", it's in the box here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest.../444807#444807

Update: I reinstalled Debian and the lag spikes were fixed. Then I did a bit of setup and at some point they returned. But removing some applets fixed it again. The other problems didn't return yet, so it's probably not an incompatibility/hardware problem, but some program did something bad.

Hardware specs include:

Processor

Ram size

GPU

Network adapter

and anything else related to hardware you're having problems with. The output of lspci is a good start.