• tazeycrazy@feddit.ukEnglish
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      9 days ago

      The amount of times I’ve pulled the trigger only to have to delve into forms and git repos trying to find a driver.

    • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
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      9 days ago

      This was Zorin for me.

      Dual screen worked without issue on live USB. Installed on metal and dual screen no longer worked…

      Never got it figured out. I just moved to a different distro.

    • addie@feddit.uk
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      9 days ago

      Ah yes, the ‘Arch Linux’ experience. To be fair, your machine boots really really fast when you don’t read the install guide carefully enough and fail to put a network stack on. Valuable learning opportunity.

        • addie@feddit.uk
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          8 days ago

          To be fair, their installation page is excellent, but it does require close reading. Where I’d messed up was the “install essential packages” section, where it just says to “consider installing” stuff which is essential really - firmware, network stack, a text editor. If you’re able to access the internet and adjust configuration files, then you can install everything else you need.

          Their suggested disk partitioning has a gigabyte for efi, which is twice what I’d recommend, and includes a swap partition, which I would not create. A swap file is just as good, and more flexible. Otherwise yeah, if you can install Arch, you can probably do all the Linux maintenance you’ll ever need to do, and it’s not that difficult - practise in a VM if you want - and will make you much more skilled and confident.

          https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide

  • Iamaquantummechanic@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    I bought a media center pc around 2000 and installed Ubuntu. The only thing that didn’t work out of the box was sound through HDMI. Figured it out the same day.

  • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I had this experience with my l14 thinkpad and Fedora.

    I was shocked that even the fingerprint reader worked… well like half the time, but I don’t like using it anyway.

  • Darren@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I have a kink for installing Linux on Macs. The only thing I ever have trouble with is wifi, particularly on my 2011 MacBook Pro.

    Oh, and the trackpad gets significantly shitter, but that’s just life.

    • moonburster@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      I installed endeavouros on my 2015 pro and nothing made the WiFi work. Reinstalled macOS.

      After a few days I thought screw it, I’ll try other distros. Popos just boots and works out of the box ….

      • Darren@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        8 days ago

        I kinda wish I hadn’t sold my 2015 MBP Pro when I got my M2 Air. I wasn’t messing about with Linux then, but with hindsight it would have been an excellent machine. I had it running Ventura (I think it was) via OCLP, which was great, but the fans were basically constant. Turns out that it was likely just macOS/OCLP.

        Currently running Kubuntu off a thumb drive plugged into my 2011 MBP and I honestly don’t think I’ve heard the fan on it. Running Ventura on the same machine was like trying to work next to a jet engine.

  • embed_me@programming.dev
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    9 days ago

    Regarding the title,

    If you’ve enough distros then you must’ve encountered the scenario where the driver worked in installer but did not in the final installation

    • ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      I literally ran into this last night trying to install Cachyos on my old surface. I was relieved when the wireless worked in the installer and so incredibly confused when it doesn’t now… I’m still trying to fix it lol.

    • cm0002@piefed.worldOPEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Lol yea, I was wondering if anyone was going to catch that, but at least then it was usually a “Why didn’t you just install it‽” rather than a 6 hour marathon of patches and drivers compiled from source or some shit LMAO

  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    I threw together spare computer parts and a new hard drive, installed Bazzite, Steam, and did an entire Dark Souls 1 playthrough without issue using an xbox controller.

    Waiting for things to go awry now. Kinda feels like an Ambrose Bierce story playing out.

      • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
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        8 days ago

        These days, that’s pleasantly true :)

        15 years ago was a different story. You’d have about a 50/50 shot of your trackpad working, one in three that your WiFi would work, and if you were hoping for a working webcam, you should just forget about it.

        So even in modern times when you do an install and everything mostly just works, it still feels suspiciously miraculous.

  • hardcoreufo@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    I have barely had any of those issues in almost 20 years of linux use. The worst I remember dealibg with was cups back in the day. Certainly almost everything I’ve installed linux on in the last 10 years has just worked.

    The only exception has been installing linux on old chrome books.

  • samc@feddit.ukEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Debian 13.

    Tried open suse, but on my laptop it was slow and loud and the battery would die almost instantly (had to make it hibernate rather than suspend if I wanted it to make it through the night).

    Installed Debian 13 and it feels like a new laptop. Not sure what exactly made the difference between the two but I’m not complaining…

      • dangrousperson@feddit.org
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        9 days ago

        I’ve had a similar problem trying to install Debian 12 in the past…

        Turned out it was the USB drive, I think. It didn’t have a problem booting and installing Mint, but with Debian it just wouldn’t boot. A different drive and it worked right away and flawlessly.

  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    The last time I had something not automatically detected was on a ~2003 obscure “gaming” laptop (or what passed for gaming back then)

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      9 days ago

      When my laptop was pretty new, I would have to update Linux Mint’s kernel for the trackpad to work. The older kernel it defaulted to didn’t support it but the update manager could get a newer one that worked. The Wi-Fi driver actually worked better in Linux than in Windows.

    • kungfuratte@feddit.org
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      8 days ago

      Yeah, it’s been pretty straight forward for standard components for the last twenty years. (But I also tend to buy PCs that are known to be Linux friendly. That might be a reason for my lack of complaints in this area.)

    • Kraiden@piefed.socialEnglish
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      9 days ago

      I’m actually having a better time of it after switching to Bazzite. I had a bunch of strange little issues on Mint that seem to be gone after switching. I switched as a hail Mary for an issue where 3D Games would freeze randomly, and that seems to be gone too thankfully