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What hardware does not support Linux? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Original question by @[email protected]

I never really see hardware lacking Linux support mentioned, which got me caught by surprise when a computer with a Broadcom network card couldn’t use the card. What other hardware don’t work with Linux?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's really hard to find WiFi 6 hardware with reliable Linux support (brostrend.com has good support). It used to be that things like sport watches required apps to configure and only Windows was supported but nowadays most will be configurable using Android. Most common hardware (cameras, card readers, external drives) use USB now so it's hard to find something without support.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

What’s even worse is when it “supports” it but in a way that’s so unusable broken it’s better to just not support it at all.

I tried Linux on my old laptop with an Intel AX201 card. For the longest time it wouldn’t constantly connect to 5ghz, try to swap to 6, then 2 seconds later fall back to 5. WiFi was basically unusable on that laptop unless I turned off 6ghz. Even then speed was only half what it should have been.