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    [–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    All I know is I booted Mint OS after getting several reccs for it, and the first thing I was greeted to was my Wi-Fi card not working, my keyboard couldn’t light up, and no right click lol.

    I have since learned more and am enjoying Linux. But let’s not pretend it’s just some sort of fire and forget solution. Which a lot of people want at the end of the day. Even booting onto an older Intel Mac can be a real pain in the ass.

    [–] boredsquirrel 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    And btw nobody recommended Mint here XD please dont

    [–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

    My dude it was the lemmy and mastodon communities that pushed me there lol

    [–] boredsquirrel 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Did you ever install Windows manually? Often drivers are also missing, just that Windows actually doesnt care and you need to search on some random vendor websites.

    Or even build drivers into the install ISO, like with my Thinkpad.

    I literally installed Windows on another laptop and just switched the SSDs, as it wouldnt install without the "magic AMD platform drivers".

    [–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    yes, it’s currently dual booted on my Intel Mac. Took about 10 minutes of effort then a bunch of waiting around. Had a Valheim server running that day as well as a few other games installed and tested. No drivers needed, though I’m sure that happens to folks. This was windows 10 about 2 years ago