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Re:I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC by 1337turtle on Monday June 28, 2021 @08:20AM (#27660902)
Sounds like you have a more complex 2in1 setup. Linux isn't great for those since those system are heavily designed to be used with Windows and will require the Linux community to play catchup and implement the correct drivers for Linux to play nice on it.

Recommend a simpler laptop that is well known to work well with Linux. There are resources out there to determine how well Linux will run on it before purchase.

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Re:I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC by fouric on Monday June 28, 2021 @09:03AM (#27661382)
If someone asks for a software/OS recommendation, "get better hardware" is generally not the right advice.
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Re:I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC by 1337turtle on Monday June 28, 2021 @09:50PM (#27670738)
Correction, I'm saying get worse hardware. :)

I just worry about people swearing off Linux forever when they can't successfully install Linux on their Microsoft Duo Surface that just released a month ago, and then they post about the horrible time they had with Linux. In the past decade I have never had any troubles installing Ubuntu on any computer I've owned. It is plug and play most of the time! But nobody talks about when things work just fine :)

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