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    [–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 days ago

    The only "real" computer (that is, a non-SBC one) I've installed Linux lately on was a work laptop. Touchpad, GPU and Wi-Fi worked straight off in Debian. Though I think it only installed Nouveau, never bothered with the real Nvidia driver. And it had some weird thermal regulation issues. Once it somehow left the filesystem in "plz boot in single user and fsck with a toothpick" state. The day before my internship ended, the thing crashed hard for some reason and took the filesystem with it. (Never use btrfs I guess?)

    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.

    [–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

    It's like magic.

    [–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 6 days ago

    Me when lenovo

    [–] loweffortname@lemmy.blahaj.zone 109 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    It's wilder when it works in the installer, but not on first boot.

    [–] tazeycrazy@feddit.uk 2 points 6 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.

    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.

    [–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 59 points 1 week ago

    I have altered the drivers, pray I do not alter them further.

    [–] addie@feddit.uk 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    So, are you trying to say it's the year of the Linux desktop?

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    [–] embed_me@programming.dev 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    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

    [–] cm0002@piefed.world 13 points 1 week 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 itβ€½" rather than a 6 hour marathon of patches and drivers compiled from source or some shit LMAO

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    [–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)
    [–] Kraiden@piefed.social 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    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

    [–] somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    also, your system is immutable now, so

    you CAN'T break it

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    [–] ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)
    [–] cm0002@piefed.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
    [–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    My Dell Latitude was that way except the fingerprint reader. Dell’s website even has Linux drivers for my laptop, nearly everything but the fingerprint reader except a Windows only driver.

    [–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    As far as I know DELLs are decent, especially latitudes.

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    [–] AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

    Funnily enough, me with Alpine Linux

    I threw it at my laptop and it just worked without a hitch

    [–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    This was my experience with Ubuntu, my beloved. :)

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    [–] samc@feddit.uk 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    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...

    [–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    Tried to install Debian 13 yesterday

    Didn’t even boot xD

    Since I needed something stable, I installed Fedora Kionite and it worked flawlessly on the first try

    [–] dangrousperson@feddit.org 3 points 1 week 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.

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    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.

    [–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week 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.

    [–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

    impossible! jkjk

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