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If I could figure out my wireless card/GPU drivers, I'd swap to Linux in a heartbeat. Plug-n-play drivers is the only reason I'm still on that closed-source OS.

If I could figure out my wireless card/GPU drivers, I'd swap to Linux in a heartbeat. Plug-n-play drivers is the only reason I'm still on that closed-source OS. Just don't have the patience to hunt down third-party drivers.

keithpeter 11y ago
Boot off a live CD (e.g. Ubuntu) and run lspci from a terminal session then post it here. You may find the drivers you need are available in a separate 'restricted' or 'non-free' repository. It is unusual these days on desktop/laptop oriented installs to have to 'hunt down' anything. Very very recent hardware can still be problematic mind you.
nileshtrivedi 11y ago
Broadcom and nVidia?
zurn 11y ago
Just get the right hardware with good Linux support, it all just works then. You won't find any lasting happiness by digging deeper into the third party drivers swamp. (all-Intel for wifi and graphics is the safest bet)
tacone 11y ago
Mainstream hardware is decently supported, if you don't have special claims. Ubuntu live cd/usb?
yellowapple 11y ago
> Just don't have the patience to hunt down third-party drivers. For most modern distros, you don't have to hunt down third-party drivers; at most, you might need to enable some first-party or second-party "restricted" repo, at which point you can install the necessary drivers from there. And last I checked, Ubuntu and Linux Mint (among others) provide a "restricted hardware wizard" in the normal settings screen to do precisely this.