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[–] 24 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Is there a program or way to check what parts are covered by Linux? I have an old laptop I want to try Linux on beforehand.

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  • [–] 32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    As another person had suggested, test with a live image first before installing it to an SSD/HDD, however Linux is very well maintained by the community and even if there aren’t native drivers from your hardwares manufacturer, for example Corsair Keyboard Drivers, there usually is Open Sourced alternatives for these things like CKB-Next.

    I say this to everyone, once you get a grasp on BASH (Bourne Again Shell) and package managers & repositories (edit: and the filesystem structure) you’ll essentially be able to use any Linux distro, it just comes down to the nitty gritty of things.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    This is what I've definitely struggled the most with mint so far. It's extremely difficult to find anything and I've needed to manually search for the file paths multiple times already,

    If you got time, take a look at Debians man page to try and get a better understanding of the filesystem structure. it’s important to keep in mind that Linux Mint is a derivative of Debian, Debian provides some pretty in depth wikis that i suggest consulting when you can.

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