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    [SOLVED]I need a new Printer, but which way to go, your imput please

    I have a Cannon PIXMA TS3300 K10509 all in one and it works fine on Mint and Pop_OS!. It is supported by Linux Zero config printing so it just shows up as available whenever its turned on. We are not big printer users so we have only used it for light printing, tax documents etc. We use the...
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    Answer to a newbie.

    +1 For Linux Mint My wife and I have been using Mint at home exclusively for 2 years and love it, just works. Bob
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    New Laptop

    I bought a Dell Inspiron 15 5510 last year and had the same result. I ran Mint 20.3 on it until recently. I updated to pop_os! 22.04. Everything worked right out to the box. With a little work on Mint the finger print sensor works. I did a lot of research before purchasing this machine. The...
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    "Wifi Adapters Supporting Linux - Add Yours Too"

    In another thread on Linux AMD processor support, I commented that in recent Linux, processors don't seem to be an issue, but WIFI adapters can be. While researching a Linux compatible WIFI adapter for my Wife's laptop I came across a good resource on git hub. Hopefully some of you will find...
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    Does Linux play well on AMD chips

    It's been a while and my Grandson has the laptop now, but I am pretty sure it was a Ralink adapter. I found this git hub repo that had a ton of useful information on in kernel WIFI support. USB WiFi adapters that are supported with Linux in-kernel drivers just check today and it appears that the...
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    Does Linux play well on AMD chips

    I went through much PAIN trying to get any version of Linux to play nice with the WIFI adapter in my Wife's laptop and ended up buying a tiny USB adapter that just worked for her machine. Now I look really close at the WIFI specs on anything new. Pretty much staying away from Realtek adapters...
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    Does Linux play well on AMD chips

    I have a AMD Ryzen 7 3750H with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx (8) @ 2.300GHz running linux Mint no problem. It seems on recent versions of Linux WIFI is more of an issue than processor model. Bob
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