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2026-03-30 05:02:24 CEST

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That's wonderful, and it is a healthy ecological perspective on putting old laptops to new use via Linux; like you, I often find that it works perfectly well.
For all students who are about to buy a new laptop, where is the 'canonical' list that says--do not by that HP but buy such and such Asus instead if you wish to run such and such Linux--but tune it this way? Ubuntu tried to make such a list for a while. Idea: make a Wiki or so for it.

2026-03-29 19:17:25 CEST

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The last lines of this link, according to the mentioned contact, works on Linux Mint, Ubuntu, and Pop!OS for his Thinkpad to cure Wifi, and this is a three-year old solution so it means that this is a gem of a solution to archive for Linux install experts:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=290480

2026-03-29 12:45:03 CEST

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Perfect!
I spent like many dozens of hours of research on this before I wrote the final version at Stackexchange here
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/804068/linux-mint-22-3-bluetooth-finds-no-devices-and-is-not-discoverable/804220#804220
..and in the process I realized that despite Microsoft saying they 'love' Linux, it seemed to me to be consistent that Intel, the main source of most Linux-unstable Wifi/Bluetooth cards, consciously avoid presenting the _full_ information that could easily make them work at once at all Linuxes; forcing dongles.

2026-03-29 12:42:30 CEST

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Awesome! Apart from a selection of Acer and Lenovo, there is usually, in my experience, a profusion of Asus and HP laptops in the typical electronics store. Asus and HP internal Wifi cards which in most cases have been produced by Intel, callibrated so that with slight over-use they break down but Windows is programmed to calm them. _Scores_ of people at forums report B/W instabilities. It is I think the main way in which Microsoft keeps Linux down and they do.

2026-03-29 00:31:43 CET

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_Wonderful_ what you say about helping people install Linux on their laptops! Here is something-- after having installed it on two different Asus laptops, one inexpensive Vivobook and one expensive gaming laptop, and one inexpensive HP, as of past 12 months:
The internal Wifi/Bluetooth is unstable in today's newest Debian Linux'es (and on some inexpensive HP Bluetooth doesn't even start). On Asus and some HP it can be repaired: my script
https://yoga6dserver.org/setup_for_install-bt-stability-for-mint.txt