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Ah I think what is happening is that a brand new laptop may not have had its drivers added to the latest download/image version of your chosen distro. Hence the
by somewhereoutth 1y ago
Ah I think what is happening is that a brand new laptop may not have had its drivers added to the latest download/image version of your chosen distro. Hence the need to connect and update to get those drivers.
For me, it was a ThinkPad X1 Gen 11 and Mint 21.2 (MATE) about a year ago.
- onli 1y agoYeah, absolutely. And with very new hardware it absolutely depends on the distro as well, how new the kernel is. > Linux Mint 21.2 features a Linux kernel 5.15 and an Ubuntu Jammy package base. That's from Oct. 2021, so it wasn't new a year ago.
- somewhereoutth 1y agoAh indeed - actually 2 years ago. I believe 21.2 (Victoria) was released in 2023: https://tuxcare.com/blog/is-linux-mint-based-on-ubuntu/ https://tuxcare.com/blog/is-linux-mint-based-on-ubuntu/ Doesn't time fly!