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I tried it this year, with the gaming laptop I use for programming. After Bluetooth problem, I didn't try again.

• smoldesu 4y ago
  Oh, well there's your problem. Gaming laptops are notoriously useless on Linux, oftentimes moreso than Macs. Gaming laptop manufacturers only sell products to Windows users, and likewise don't really care if they buy cheap components without proper driver support. It's a common and sad practice, but I kinda have to blame you for not doing your research here. I do wish you luck in the future. Nobody deserves to be saddled with telemetry/adware just because their hardware is unsupported on other OSes, but blind-box reverse-engineering the drivers for all your esoteric Chinese WiFi cards is oftentimes not really worth the trouble. Like I said in the other post, Linux never claims to have driver parity with Windows (nor can it, really). However, informed consumers can pretty easily source hardware with excellent Linux support. HP and Lenovo sell first-party machines with Linux preinstalled and guaranteed driver support, as well as many other smaller manufacturers. With cheap, cobbled-together gaming laptops, that's often not possible.