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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availab... by nsomaru on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:36AM (#22875186)
Been running some flavour of Debian for > 10 years. Now on my dell XPS 13 9350. Upgraded to Debian 10, a kernel regression broke the brcfmac driver for my Broadcom wireless. Now I need to disable power saving on the WiFi card. Still, sometimes the WiFi card just dies. Sometimes reloading the kernel module works, sometimes only a hard reset will do.

Bluetooth has never worked.

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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availab... by willtim on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @03:35AM (#22875454)
Broadcom unfortunately has never been well supported on Linux. I've always used ThinkPads for running Linux and have never had these sorts of hardware issues (and I keep laptops for at least 8 years). You need to buy a machine with running Linux in mind (or more specifically, Debian, which has even less out-of-the-box hardware support for laptops).
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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availab... by nsomaru on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @04:55AM (#22875770)
You’re right. A new WiFi card is cheap, apparently. Just not available anywhere near where I am :/
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