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Re:I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2 by sph on Saturday June 25, 2022 @08:57AM (#31874927)
It's not the first time I read a review from somebody, "it's great!", they say, and immediately after they start listing all the things that are not in fact great.

Reminds me of that meme that shows Brits using "it could be worse" to mean anything less than average, and "not too bad" for everything else, while Americans say "awesome!" for any kind of sentiment, good or bad.

I'm not saying OP is American, just that adjectives in reviews have lost most of their meaning.

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Re:I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2 by pxmpxm on Saturday June 25, 2022 @09:05AM (#31874970)
I suspect it's a linux "enthusiast" thing, rather than an american thing.

Virtually every thread about linux on laptop starts out with someone claiming that it runs perfect on this or that hardware, then 20 other people chime in with all the things that actually don't work on the same same machine, and finally the original poster concedes with some weasel statement along the lines of "well it works for me". And the year-of-linux-on-x circle of life continues...

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Re:I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2 by goosedragons on Saturday June 25, 2022 @10:05AM (#31875399)
OEMs sometimes will do things like use different Wifi modules (among other things) on the same exact model and it can be somewhat luck of the draw as to what works well with Linux.

Distro choice also has a big impact. Like I tried Guix on my P14s and haven't been able to get Wifi working even with the latest non-libre kernel among other issues. Literally EVERYTHING works perfectly on Ubuntu 22.04 despite in theory non-libre Guix having a newer kernel so something must be going on there.

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Re:I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2 by retcon on Saturday June 25, 2022 @01:30PM (#31877046)
Your WiFi module in any ThinkPad should be a M2 card and there's a wide selection of alternatives for about thirty bucks.
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