>Be me
>Build new PC
>"Maybe I’ll try out Linux. "
>Fairly popular 2 year old Motherboard
>Integrated WiFi Module no drivers available
>Integrated Bluetooth Module no drivers available
>No support for $170 Sound Card
>4 hours of troubleshooting later
>Linux more bloated with dependencies and packages from troubleshooting than your grandmas browser extensions
>“Fuck this”
>Nuke Partition
>Install Windows
>Shit instantly just works
>Use Linux partition drive for backups
i’ve only ever had to fuck around with wifi drivers when installing Arch
Everytime i’ve installed ubuntu on a laptop it’s worked fine out of the box, including on the same laptop i had to fuck around with drivers on for Arch
i settled on Manjaro in the end for my desktop PCs. it has the flexibility of Arch including use of the AUR but i don’t have to put much effort into setting it up
No, but apparently I have one of the only WiFi/Bluetooth chip of MediaTek Corps. MT Series that is inexplicably not supported. Most others of that lineup are, just this exact one isn’t.
i learned from my recent incursion into setting up a concept ubuntu build for snapdragon laptops that you can pull binaries from the windows partition to make the wifi drivers work
>Be me
>Build new PC
>"Maybe I’ll try out Linux. "
>Fairly popular 2 year old Motherboard
>Integrated WiFi Module no drivers available
>Integrated Bluetooth Module no drivers available
>No support for $170 Sound Card
>4 hours of troubleshooting later
>Linux more bloated with dependencies and packages from troubleshooting than your grandmas browser extensions
>“Fuck this”
>Nuke Partition
>Install Windows
>Shit instantly just works
>Use Linux partition drive for backups
did you try and use Arch?
i’ve only ever had to fuck around with wifi drivers when installing Arch
Everytime i’ve installed ubuntu on a laptop it’s worked fine out of the box, including on the same laptop i had to fuck around with drivers on for Arch
I love Arch, but it is not for beginners. WiFi and Bluetooth are both sketchy. Or, at least, they used to be.
i settled on Manjaro in the end for my desktop PCs. it has the flexibility of Arch including use of the AUR but i don’t have to put much effort into setting it up
No, but apparently I have one of the only WiFi/Bluetooth chip of MediaTek Corps. MT Series that is inexplicably not supported. Most others of that lineup are, just this exact one isn’t.
i learned from my recent incursion into setting up a concept ubuntu build for snapdragon laptops that you can pull binaries from the windows partition to make the wifi drivers work
Buy good hardware next time