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2026-05-12 18:09 UTC

Yep things have certainly changed since then, I remember when it was common advice to new Linux users to generally avoid laptops.

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@njordomir@lemmy.world 2026-05-12 18:46

I remember this too. Somehow, despite all the laptops I installed it on I got VERY lucky and only had a couple of WiFi issues, one totally incompatible laptop, and one that would not boot until I got the boot parameters right. I heard plenty stories from other people though. All that said, it’s so much smoother and easier installing Linux nowadays that the Windows install where I worry the whole time that MS is trying to reverse psychology me into agreeing to sell my unborn children into slavery.

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@eldavi@lemmy.ml 2026-05-12 19:45

that logic was my exact reasoning for buying linux-first laptops and it gave me an ultra smooth sailing for almost a decade meanwhile this is how i felt learning about everyone else’s wifi/nvidia problems that system76 solved for me:

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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-05-12 20:50

Welp, maybe even the SDIO wifi on that 200 $ convertible back in … 2018-ish would work ootb now. Windows 10 struggled already with the only 4 GB RAM, forget webbrowsing, the only reasonable task for such a device.

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