Re: New WiFi adapter

On 6/3/25 1:03 AM, Joel wrote:

c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
 

    Admittedly though, MOST people will make their first
    Linux install stick using Winders. Tragic. I got it
    started using RHEL and early SUSE that came on
    floppies bought from WalMart. Never needed Win
    after that. Had to deal with its BS at The Job for
    a long time alas - MUCH happier with my Linux
    servers and such but the staff was NOT gonna switch
    to Linux, most could barely work Win. Alas only
    ONE other Linux convertee in the place.

>
Why would you call it "tragic" to make a USB media with Winblows?  It
works.  I admittedly rewrote the media under Linux itself, to
eliminate Rufus' fingerprint, but I did install the first Linux distro
on this machine from a media made in Win11.  It didn't make any
difference in terms of what was installed.  You apparently are such a
purist you can't even look at Winblows on the screen without pissing
your pants, or something.

>
   It's a matter of PRIDE ... WON'T have WinBlows appear on
   screen for a millisecond  :-)
>
   Anyway, I described how to install Linux/Unix on the
   BeeLink/BMax boxes without ever letting WinBlows
   manifest. It works well. IMHO you should have had
   plenty, maybe exclusively, Linux boxes for at LEAST
   ten years. Vista was kind of The Point where Win
   should have been TOTALLY dumped.
>
   DO like the little BeeLink/BMax boxes however. While
   PIs are good for what PIs are good for, these units
   are a little more 'general purpose' - most have room
   for an extra small SATA disk/SSD right in the tiny box.
>
   Price is still pretty good. Note that the newer N150
   units may require updated drivers ... had to install
   a MX-AHD distro with THE latest drivers on one with
   an N-150. Using Linux, the N-95-150 units perform
   MUCH better than with Win - actually damned decent.
   Have one with and MX base ... running GhostBSD as
   a VM ... and both are fairly zippy.

  Since I work with one machine at a time, it made sense to create the
media in the OS I was replacing, Win11, and in fact I couldn't have
avoided using Windows on this machine for at least a while, because
its hardware was too state-of-the-art initially to boot a Linux
installer.

   DO look at the 'MX' 'advanced hardware' distro. It
   is aimed at dealing with the latest BIOS/hardware
   challenges. Fixed MY probs with the N-150s.

Even when I did later install Linux, it uses a file
allocation table partition for the boot loader, on the first NVMe
drive, I added a second one later, it's a very modern PC, but works
much superiorly with Linux, since Win11 is nonstop bloat, and Win10
would be settling for a dead end.

   Look, if Linux doesn't support it INSTANTLY ... wait a
   month or two. The RHEL derivatives will pick up the new
   HW pretty damned quick for sure. Deb derivs maybe a month
   or two later. NO hurry here usually - NO reason to suck
   Winders ass.
   In any case, Linux can turn a 'low-end laptop' chip
   like the N-95->N-150 into a lean mean machine for
   VERY cheap. For anything I'm doing now I don't NEED
   any more CPU/$$$. This includes a 7-cam security
   system, SOME running on 'Motion'. Rotating view,
   recording. Can also stream HD video on the main
   'motion' box without disruptions, and it's just an
   N-95 running an Arch deriv. In short, Linux is VASTLY
   more efficient and cost-effective. Do you think you
   NEED an i9 for everything ?