On 7/20/24 09:58, Larry Martell wrote:
I’ve never owned a machine running windows in my life.
I've owned one. I needed a lappy I could use with a gps for roadmap, had
the then new XP on it, cleared the disk a week later and put mandrake on
it because XP had no drivers that could run the broadcom radio in it,
should have been a free module update from hp. I don't think that 20
years later there has ever been a driver for that particular radio that
Just Works. The lappy has long since suicided. Typical hp chinese
sourced stuff even before they sold it all to lenovo.
Now there are around 10 linux installs here, half running armbian, they
get better uptimes than x86-64's.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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