Dell

The well-known kernel options i915.enable_dc=0 and intel_idle.max_cstate=1 are still helpful with my latest installation of NixOS 24.5 on this device.

Don’t miss to add kernel options i915.enable_dc=0 and intel_idle.max_cstate=1, if you want to run a modern arch linux on your Dell Latitude 7490.

You can query the Service Tag of Dell hardware quite easily:

Using a screen expanding to two monitors was always easy until I installed the proprietary NVIDIA drivers.