• Walican132
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    11 year ago

    So I’m a total Linux noob are there issues with drivers? I have a laptop I would consider doing this on if I wasn’t worried about it breaking.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      my daily driver is a laptop and I haven’t had any issues with drivers. I have an Nvidia GPU and it’s been fine. if anything you can partion out your drive and give a linux distro a go to see how you like it. Linux Mint is painfully easy to install. I’m on CachyOS which is a little more “advanced” but not by much and it’s just as easy to install.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        I solidly refuse to believe you’ve had no issues with WiFi drivers on a laptop. Otherwise, yeah it’s fine.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          I’ve used various Linux distress on a half dozen laptops over rhe last 10 years and I’ve never had Wi-Fi driver issues

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Every damn time I get a new laptop I lose hours to WiFi drivers, even then I’ll still occasionally and have no WiFi.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          nope, haven’t had any issues with wifi. in fact it works better now than it did on Windows. On windows every so often I’d have to reinstall the OS simply because the wifi stopped working regardless of reinstalling drivers.

          On linux haven’t had that issue at all and if anything it’s more reliable.

    • brianorca
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      51 year ago

      You can get Mint on a “Live” USB flash drive, so you can boot it up and see if it handles all your hardware before you install anything.