morphemass wrote:What actually worked for the backlight and with which graphics driver (nouveau or the propriety?).While I'm at it, has anyone any tips for the touchpad right button which doesnt work, and also reducing the sensitivity of the touchpad...

This isn't a version upgrade, it's nothing but a service pack if anything. Obviously drivers are compatible.

LOL. Fools. Obviously drivers will work with 8.1, even microsoft aren't THAT dumb.

Running Arch (w/ Gnome) AND secure boot enabled. Works great (besides some tweaking with backlight). No HW issues at all...

Installed Archlinux on my G750jx. I wanted to keep secure boot, which may work out of the box on Fedora, Ubuntu and Mint (as they now come with signed boot loaders). Arch is however the only viable distro for me, and it now runs great. Using th...