Linux Razer Blade 2018/19 & Beyond

While reading through the threads here and via google search I can see that many of us have purchased this great machine so that we can run Linux either for development or gaming.

Razer at this point in time offer no support for Linux, I would like to see if we can raise the awareness of this and that they respond.

Would also like that fellow members post there experiences in one place and create separate threads for different Linux distributions such that members can follow.

Although it is my opinion that Ubuntu should be the default distribution being one of the most supported.

 

I would ask if it really has to be Ubuntu? Is that really the only option. I say this as someone who has been running Ubuntu on a Blade 15 for awhile now. It took until Disco Dingo for Ubuntu to have a kernel that supported all the hardware without a BIOS update.

 

It does not have to be Ubuntu. I actually opted for Debian 10 Buster, of which I have most of it stable.

I'd like however to get rid of the annoying colour cylcle on the keyboard.
It would just be really nice, not to have to be tied to one OS.

 

@Ctrl_Alt_Delete_Stack regarding the keyboard backlighting and other support you could try the openrazer: https://openrazer.github.io/

and then for adjustments on the actual devices the following applications
polychromatic: https://github.com/polychromatic/polychromatic
razergenie: https://github.com/z3ntu/RazerGenie
razercommander: https://github.com/gabmus/razercommander