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minus-squareJohanno@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoTrue. Linux supports a lot of hardware. However some distros support some better than others. Basically before you buy hardware you need to check if it works on Linux. Usually it does, but better check throughly
minus-squareCheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoI suspect Mint would work fine on that same desktop at this point, since it was just very new at the time and support take a bit to come in, but now its all set up how I want. Perhaps when windows next shits itself and I need to re-format anyway.
minus-squareUltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-23 months agoIs there some website or tool i could search my hardware specs for the best distro?
True. Linux supports a lot of hardware. However some distros support some better than others.
Basically before you buy hardware you need to check if it works on Linux. Usually it does, but better check throughly
I suspect Mint would work fine on that same desktop at this point, since it was just very new at the time and support take a bit to come in, but now its all set up how I want. Perhaps when windows next shits itself and I need to re-format anyway.
Is there some website or tool i could search my hardware specs for the best distro?