Even then that process sucks too. If you’re bleeding edge it takes a while for them to support new GPUs. And even when they do, the process can be ass/gives you ancient drivers.

I just do it on fedora 43 and it SUCKED. I ran into so many errors, and even then I still have issues. Distros like mint make it easy, but you’re usually on crusty ass drivers and probably a pretty old kernel.

What conflict? I haven’t had issues like that in probably 10+ years.

Hell my one laptop has all 3 major vendors drivers installed and working simultaneously. Intel iGPU, Nvidia dGPU and AMD eGPU.

Drivers are part of the kernel.

But if you want to manually install your own drivers (say Nvidia proprietary ones) god forbid that’s an obnoxious process. It makes windows driver hell look quaint.

If you’re going from Nvidia to Nvidia for AMD to AMD and you’re on the latest drivers already you probably don’t even have to uninstall them. When I last upgraded my GPU I just took the old one out and put the new one in and it just worked.

7s the exact same. 7 added the ability to combine 2.4 5 and 6ghz bands into one connection. But in my experience the speed difference vs just 6ghz is negligible. Instead of 2gig over WiFi you get closer to 2.4. Woo.

Kids these days….

Well if you want anything over 35 inches a TV is your only option. They don’t really make monitors bigger than that.

Also usually cheaper components.

ITX boards tend to cost more than bigger boards, you’re limited to one slot, and usually the cases are super limited in size for heatsinks or other stuff.

Probably on older hard drives like that hardware raid won’t slow things down too much. But holy shit do hardware raid controllers suck with faster HDDs/SSDs. Also they obscure smart info from your OS so you need special software to talk to the raid controller to know if your drives are failing.

Otherwise they’re fine. If that’s what ya got that’s what ya got. Rung what ya brung.

It’d be really funny if the AI bubble popped before they fully shut down Crucial.

Really?!? The company that LTT has invested in might also support some problematic people?

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. There’s better distros out there.

Especially when you have no interest in gaming.

I’m not us gaming though I do dev work and what have you

Bazzite isn’t really for you. Bazzite is a gaming 1st distro. You probably want a more normal general use distro.

You can only “roll back” to 10 if you just upgraded from 10 to 11. If you bought something new then you can’t “roll back” to something that was never there.

Also if it’s a newer laptop expect a lot of things to be broken or work poorly. A lot of new hardware has come out post Windows 11.

I have the startech usb kvm. It’s expensive new, but used it can be pretty cheap.

https://www.startech.com/en-us/kvm-switches-accessories/notecons01?srsltid=AfmBOorkwy-lfw8bfGyWO5qu2NWQPUt9LGTeMR_-blosZkMcY1mOsfBI

Just because you can type that fast doesn’t mean you should.

Do you even care about the things you’re posting?

12th gen Intel is the last to support OG standby. 13th gen and up are S0 standby only. AMD gave up on S1-3 standby even earlier.

ThinkPads with 12 gen CPUs support the good standby if you want a nice machine with it.

If it’s a prebuilt and it’s the SSD that’s the problem then taking out the SSD probably won’t be an option. OP never said what PC it is, but I know some manufacturers will be ok with shipping just the ssd. Assuming you can narrow it down to just the SSD.

IDK OP, just contact their support and see what they say to diagnose it. Just wipe the drive before you send it off. They’re not going to do data recovery on your SSD just to decline the warranty, it’s not worth their time or money. They’re just going to replace it.

Most antenna towers aren’t saucer shaped.

They just reused an existing building which happened to fit a fuck ton of antennas on it nicely. Most tall buildings will have some sort of antennas on them.

There’s no reason why Linux would be immune to this. If anything you’re probably not running any AV on Linux so if you did get infected you’d probably never notice until it starts being a pain.