they do on intel m.2 adapter and some usb adapters do have working drivers, but I had a eithernet cable running through the house before I switched because either is much more stable and faster Just like laptops and tablets, wifi is a joke. I need my desktop with eithernet
Linux has better Wi-Fi support than Windows. You just need to swap Wi-Fi cards. The reason he doesn't have Wi-Fi is because laptop Wi-Fi antennas are behind the LCD.
@@ExertionEdits shutdown cycles are hard on hardware, reducing their lifespan, especially with SSDs and RAM. You're also not saving much having it shutdown vs idle, or hell even vs full load. That $2/month in savings must be so worth straining your hardware lol. Only updates or just periodically should one shutdown/restart.
I always have a hard time connecting to windows wifi but never in my kubuntu, in windows sometimes it just can't connect to the WiFi and I need to forget the network then restart the PC just to connect again
meanwhile windows users can't even remember which application they use for websurfing like 80% of the time and casually referr to it as "the thing where I Google" which isn't really better
Yep. You have to hold your breath at every boot, hoping it didn't update overnight and break something. I get that. That's why I dumped Windoze about 10 years ago, and haven't looked back!
@@Kipplz In my case (since you havent had a reply yer), to use Windows, I would have to find and download each driver for my computer. Wifi, printer, sound, SD card reader... etc etc...loads of messing about.... I installed Ubuntu and it all just worked. I did not have to do any thing. Everything worked fine. All drivers automatically detected and installed. So so easy. And my 14 year old laptop is faster with Linux. I dont't think my CPU architecture / version would not even allow me to install Win 11 - despite it being I5 2.4GHz with 8GB RAM.... so I don't have to pay £500+ for a new laptop when there is plenty of use left in it. Currently dual booting Win 7 and Linux Mint
@@MrSuperheterodyne I've always had problems with Windows' compatibility/ability to run certain programs and especially games, more often retro games or just games that were made with older engines. It's so annoying to do something like, download 5 different boomer-shooter (looked into the genre for the sole purpose of being able to run simple, low storage FPS games on my regular laptop) indie games, anticipating to boot one up the next day, only to get a "error: couldn't find _________________" for all 5 of them. Then you manage to find out how to solve the error which, for me, meant finding the files it couldn't find, on the web, waiting through downloads, then unzipping files into System32 and the WOW_System32 or whatever it's called. I then restart the computer to secure the changes only to try booting up one of the game files again and get a new 'is missing' pop-up, error number, asking for some other bullshit that you can't find a new solution to. Such is to be expected after that experience, acknowledging the computer also came pre-installed with Windows 11. I already had the same problems running games on Windows 7 back then; the few that *would* work, would end up only booting up an error message, few days or months afterwards, probably thanks to a forced update that is most of the time favoring the company.
Because thats what lightweight Linux is for, for old PCs that cant run Windows anymore. But I honestly even have on my old 10 y/o Notebook Windows 11 because I just like it more :/
@@Idolstarcynder Because it runs on older hardware? Not everyone can afford a new PC or they just want to repuepose old PCs so they don't just end up in landfills.. Maybe?
@@MANTISxB that's why I said many, not all or even most. I know there is a few linux users that are using the latest hardware, or at least fairly recent hardware.
I had to do this for a friend. He apparently had no idea how both of his hinges got so damaged. And because he had a cheapo laptop there wasnt much of an option to fix it.
Not necessarily. I have a friend that uses Linux, and she is the kind of person that likes to put random pretty knickknacks on her furniture. Couldn’t care less about wiring and connectors AFAIK.
@@SamualN I hate the idea of mouth breathing. It just sounds and feels dirty. Since our nose has nose hair and all to protect us from environmental things
@@GenuineA-HOLE I detest nose breathing. My uncle has giant cavernous nostrils and every single god damn fucking breath he takes is a hollow pan flute sound. It's utterly disgusting to listen to.
Yea the dude should for real install some outlets under his desk, will give him a lotta more space. I am still struggling with cable management as well lol
@@zgliu8018 You know you can hold shift while clicking shutdown or just disable fast startup. If you have windows on an SSD the difference in boot time will be negligible.
@@Plasmacore_V It seems totally unnecessary to me that only by holding Shift can I do actual shut down, when the button literally says "Shut Down". When I want hibernation, I use "Hibernate" button. Why would I need hibernation when I am using a "Shut Down" button? Also, fast startup IS hibernation. It is also unnecessary to me to use a different word to refer to it, when there already exists one, just because fast startup sounds like it's something more efficient than normal startup, but in reality the implementation is totally different.
@@zgliu8018 Fast Startup and Hibernate are not exactly the same thing. "Fast Startup saves the freshly-started state of Windows. Meanwhile, Hibernate saves everything, including the current state, logged in users, or open files, folders & applications. If you want to get back the exact state when you left your work, Hibernate is a great option but takes longer to boot up." Since with Fast Startup enabled you are able to force as "complete" shutdown with a power down (like how restart does without turning off power) by holding Shift when you select Shutdown. I think it is confusing too.
I had ububtu when i was in highschool. Maybe 2009-2013 ish. I loved it. I learned a lot using it. I even made my own windows xp theme which worked just like windows, found one made by a hobbyist and mine wasnt too far off from his. Wish i kept up with it, all these yrs later that knowledge has left me. I used to feel like a technowizard back then. Miss ubuntu dearly. It was so different than anything else. Sure, at that time games didnt perform so well if they even supported ubuntu at all. But the os itself was a game to me. I loved messing with it, it was so easy.
In the video game Metroid Prime pinball there is a button you can hit that makes the screen go completely dark such that you have to literally put it on the surface of the Sun to see the screen and even then you can only see the very spot that you're looking at and nothing surrounding it well I had the laptop that was doing that but I couldn't find a way to turn it off so I removed the screen from it and used it as a desktop. If you've ever used an original game boy and tried to see the screen that is way easier and not even close to what I'm talking about. Edit: Metroid Prime pinball is a DS game.
@@mattmurphy7030 I also forgot to mention that that video game is for the Nintendo DS that would probably clear up some things. Basically I looked online and it says that if the screen looks like what I described it means the backlight has burnt out on a laptop however in the video game when you push that button a second time the back light comes back.
First Name Last Name the 4 shades of grey game boys had quite clear and easy to see screens, it was mainly the gbc and original gba that had hard to see screens
True Linux users don't go around saying, "I'm a Linux user". In fact, they don't talk much because they are too busy trying to resolve a dependency issue.
This is just a slow decapitated laptop with no Plymouth start up theme covering the startup messages. Windows does the exact same thing just it hides them edit: thx for the likes 😀
Because it's decapitated i.e. the guy removed the screen, it's Linux and I know that's what Linux looks like if you remove the boot screen at startup. And all operating systems with a boot screen do this as they obviously take a kernel log on startup but Linux by default shows it if there isn't a boot screen covering it.
1. That grey background is the start up theme. System76 just decided to use plain poop gray background. 2. He pressed Escape to intentionally show the debug.
You make do. When there is no money, you make do. It does incredibly well. It's like falling down a hill into a pool party with a bbq. It's disorienting, and a lot of things are not quite what you expect them to be, but the important stuff is still there and this is a pleasant experience rather than say rolling off a cliff to an 80ft drop.
@@_danu Well the real problem is that people like to try flashy versions or versions above their skill level and... there's no GOOD way to be sure you're actually going to be in the right realm with what you pick the first time. And the problem is that people are not... resilient most of the time. This is often a last ditch solution and when it fails they're REALLY screwed and it fails not because IT can't but because THEY can't and they don't have ANY clue.
@rooftoppers for anyone that is wondering arch wiki says that if you have grub you should edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg in order to persist change with "linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=0a3407de-014b-458b-b5c1-848e92a327a3 rw quiet splash" and as far as i remember you need to change "quiet splash" to just "splash"
my setup is half gaming pc and the keyboard is a 2012 office keyboard has chocolatr in between the keys the monitor is a samsung tv that is probably from 2015 or something, and the cable managment? *we dont talk about that*
@@Cryo_Gen I'm now imagining a mechanical computer whose kinetic energy is given by a diesel engine lol. It would be faster than an electromechanical computer, but more dangerous
I wouldn't really call an HP "E-treasure." Seriously HP's hardware and BIOS are so horrible. They're designed purposefully to be bad and die in a short term to get you to buy more.
@@DrAnimePhD I would not also, i tried to use hp laptop as server to play with. And i will probably throw it away. But hey free stuff is free if it find it's purpose.
@@DrAnimePhDI've had an HP Omen laptop for 8 years and it still runs like a champ. Only thing I've ever maintained on it is replacing the battery once 3 years ago.
Not really. I use an old refurbished T530 with dockingstation as my main PC. It's old, but quite powerfull for everything non graphic-intensive. Sadly no gaming PC, but still the best PC I owned so far. But it depends on how you define poor (and it highly depends on where you live). It still costed about 450€ when I bought it a few years ago in a second-hand shop.
You change change the grub conf file so that it doesn’t change the font size in the middle of the boot. I do this with black light to make sure it’s always bright when decrypting before the system can read the last known setting
There is no excuse for having no SSD as the boot-device at this point and the current low prices. I even added a 120GB SSD to an antique IBM Thinkpad x61s, and for that I had to install Middleton's BIOS to enable the Sata-II interface capability 😅
@@Lavi-Aemilia-Astori And many people here learned English as their second language. So please be helpful and point out the mistake, so we can improve, or otherwise simply be silent.
i was similar, it was a n HP laptop that was made from two mostly compatible ones (screen was hot glued back in as it was sightly smaller vs the og one that was busted. it ran Xubuntu. now i also have an old Proscan tablet that had a missing wake/sleep button so i glued on a momentary button and soldered the wires to the pads for the old button (runs Android 5, i use it for D&D Nights for my character sheet and Rocket browser). i may have an old laptop i may do this for but have it hooked to my projector and running something like Peppermint Linux (Debian).
👍It would look so much cleaner, especially with some additional cable management. No crappy setup is an excuse for not using a few cable ties to clean things up, and this free floating LAN cable is a health risk 😂
Same. Except the antenna for my intel wireless chip were damaged when I falcon punched the screen clean off it's hinges, so I ripped the wireless chip out and use a wifi dongle instead. (I don't have easy access to an ethernet cable where I have my frankentop)
