![]() ![]() The community still floats on crypic linomages who are way too 1337 to explain things in common (or at all) Linux is still the OS that sits there being enigmatic and doing nothing while the user has to do everything. I have to think that there might be some improvement (not WIFI, alas) now that I bulleted it and rebooted.Īdmirable try of the author to try and NOT drop to commandline.Īlas, mentioned device manager of course never managed to start in my installation. Still, this is/was a fine post – somehow, a pretty big sounding “driver” (Intel CPU) was un-bulleted. Even if the software stopped at a point where you’re told to go to XYZ website to download something, that would be a big improvement over what appears to be the case (I just upgraded to MINT 18 in the hope that the latest would be the greatest … or at least greater) currently. I’m no engineer, but if one inserts something (in my case a “dongle” that provides, via Windows, WIFI capability), recognizing that there’s a new something can’t be that difficult. ![]() Still, “open source” just might attract – even in 2017 – some talented individual or team to tackle this issue. ![]() There are obviously onerous limits on development when talent is volunteered and QC is very, very tough. My point is that LINUX is “the better way” for many people and orgs … but far from all. I just read an article that said that while Apple is clearly a VERY successful company, they seldom “get there first ” instead, they take a good idea (recognizing which ones are good is probably tougher than it may sound) and make it “enough better” to warrant doubling the price. I'd imagine that this operation could be problematic for users who give Linux a try and cannot figure it out on their own. On Windows, wireless networking is installed by default so that you can connect to the Internet right away without having to install device drivers first (in the majority of cases at least). After the install finished, wireless connections became available when I clicked on the connections symbol in the system tray area.Īll I had to do was pick the right wireless network from the list and enter the password to connect to it.Īs a user coming from Windows, I wish this would be a bit easier. Linux Mint picked the driver up from the Flash Drive I installed the operating system from. Or, and that is also an option, you could use the Linux Mint copy on the USB device for that as well. So, one option to grab the right drivers is to connect the Linux device via a wired cable to the Internet. I connected the USB drive again, switched from "do not use this device" to the device in question and clicked on apply changes afterwards to install the necessary drivers. It displayed that the wireless adapter was not installed and let me know that I needed a wired connection or Linux Mint on USB to install it. You find the Driver Manager in the second column after selecting Administration in the first. The only connection options were wired, and since I was not able to make use of that, I had to find out what was going on.įirst thing I did was open the Driver Manager to find out if the wireless adapter was installed properly. I noticed then that the operating system did not pick up any wireless connections even though some were available in the vicinity. The installation went fine and the first boot after it booted right into the Linux Mint desktop (after entering the password I used to encrypt the data on the device). The laptop booted into the Live Linux Mint environment on boot after connecting the USB Flash Drive to it and making sure that the boot order would pick it up prior to operating systems on the hard drive. I had to use the Universal USB Installer to copy the ISO image to a Flash drive since the device I wanted to install Linux Mint on had no optical drive. The installation of the Linux distribution wentfine. ![]()
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