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lpcvoidlast Saturday at 9:39 PM2 repliesview on HN

Perhaps you could have checked if the firmware was installed? Most distros have non free firmware in their packages, it just needs to be installed.


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mft_last Saturday at 10:24 PM

Or maybe the operating system should just work reliably for (at least) the basics? Or if it can’t, at least give an indication why?

Blaming a new user like this is one of the cultural reasons why the ‘year of the Linux desktop’ has always been n+1.

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llmslave3last Saturday at 10:20 PM

I tried everything lol.