Brand new, out of the box. It’s been sitting here at 100% for 5 minutes.

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    1 year ago

    Installing Linux is fun unless it doesn’t like your wifi adapter and you’re a noob.

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      1 year ago

      fair enough. I’ve seen a number of people having issues with wifi on linux across the web.

      i prefer wired connection for my pc regardless of support and only use wifi for tv, phone, etc.

      best practice is a spare ethernet cable and if a built in wifi adapter won’t work, research external usb ones if you need wifi that bad.

      personally I’d rather find a work around or try a different distro than give up and go back to windows over a wifi adapter.

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        1 year ago

        It was an external USB adapter but Manjaro didn’t like it. But yeah that one thing isn’t enough to give up Linux. Windows keeps killing certain printers when Windows updates, that is a fair amount of trouble to fix sometimes too.

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          cortana drove me nuts . i like being able to search/type in the start menu, that was a good freature to add, but cortana along with web searching felt messy and invasive.

          I’ve heard of people allegedly losing personal files in updates but i never experienced that problem.

          at one time i had a laundry list of reasons i disliked windows but over the years I’ve refined down to “not my cup of tea”.

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            I get rid of Cortana every time it pops up. Last time I installed Windows I somehow enabled OneDrive even though I definitely did not want it. It wound up trying to back up my gigabytes of game save files and mods to the cloud.