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   Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️ (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jan-2026 08:36:45 JST Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️

   • Fedora Project (F43 is OUT)

   It is the year 2026, and a Windows 11 installer can’t detect the WiFi adapter in this mini PC I’m reviewing.

   And get this: it’s not accepting wired keyboard input to run OOBE\BYPASSNRO even though it accepts the shift+F10 to open command prompt!

   But a live session of @fedora
   has no problem with either device.

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     Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️ (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jan-2026 11:02:14 JST Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️

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     • Martin Giger

     @freaktechnik Oh definitely! I remember several laptops I tested around 2018/2019 (when I first started using Linux) that were nightmares to get the WiFi/BT running.

     I haven't had that kind of issue again in at least the last 3 or 4 years.

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     Martin Giger (freaktechnik@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jan-2026 11:02:15 JST Martin Giger

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     @killyourfm I still remember when getting WiFi to work on Linux was even worse than on windows (though I often ended up burning a CD or copying windows drivers to a thumb drive on a library PC or similar after some catastrophic thing happened to my windows install). Then intel made wifi chipsets and it all became fine? That's roughly how I remember it... (Broadcom still has a tainted name for me)