• PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
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    21 hours ago

    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

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      14 hours ago

      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.

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        9 hours ago

        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

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        20 hours ago

        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