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submitted 6 months ago by EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world to c/linuxmint@lemmy.ml

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What a cool thing you guys have going here!

I am on my second day of using this operating system and while I still feel kind of like I'm a toddler walking around with a loaded gun, in that I am as ignorant as I am dangerous (to myself at least), I'm starting to look into some of the neat things you can do and I'm quite impressed!

I just wanted to make a positive post of appreciation as a newcomer to the OS!

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[–] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, I made a time shift backup the moment installation completed and could boot consistently. I have yet to move a whole bunch of data over yet either as I am still feeling things out.

From what I can see it's difficult to break things completely past the point of nor return (say, by disabling some failsafe and causing hardware damage or doing the equivalent of throwing the kernel into a wood chipper) so I am starting to poke about a little more.

Presently I am wrestling with my wifi driver but I want to see if I can figure it out on my own first. Evidently the MSI B650 Gaming plus Wi-Fi motherboard runs a notoriously fidgety MT7922 (?) chipset.

Always a new challenge!

[–] anon5621@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't think mediatek provide any firmware for this wifi chip ,so better switch it to Intel WiFi adapter

[–] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Man, at first I was really bummed because I thought this meant I would have to replace the entire motherboard, but I looked a little deeper and you can just swap out the Wi-Fi card! Miraculous!

Obviously my budget is absolutely wrecked from buying the parts for the computer, but I will probably get the new card in a paycheck or two!

Based on what I have seen the Intel AX6E (or maybe NGW?) would be the target replacement, no?

[–] anon5621@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes ax6e will work fine :)

[–] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Thank you!