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> This would not have happened 10 years ago. Funny you say that, as I was installing Ubuntu on peoples laptops and it just worked, like 15 years ago... :-)
by 0points 1mo ago
> This would not have happened 10 years ago.
Funny you say that, as I was installing Ubuntu on peoples laptops and it just worked, like 15 years ago... :-)
- mschuster91 1mo agoOnly on a select combination of blessed components and BIOS/EFI not half-ass broken to the tune it only worked somewhat stable on Windows. Anything with split iGPU/dGPU was a mess no matter what and where, WiFi that was not Intel was a mess, suspend to ram and suspend to disk were a coin flip if the system would wake up again or if it would decide to wake up on its own and overheat itself to panic.
- kjs3 1mo ago"I installed Ubuntu on peoples laptops and was extremely lucky they happened to have compatible hardware or didn't notice the stuff that didn't work and had a non-borked firmware". FTFY. This was absolutely not everyones experience, including mine.