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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 100 points 1 month ago (31 children)

Nothing that cannot be fixed by a Linux install.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Man, I've been trying to migrate to Linux as my daily driver desktop over the last week. I love Linux passionately. But multi-monitor and 2.5Gb/s NIC support is just a disaster, basically to the point of completely unusable. It's so frustrating. It keeps pushing me back to Windows, because Windows just works when it comes to hardware.

[–] jrgd@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For multi-monitor: use Wayland. For 2.5Gbps Ethernet NICs, they never work properly on any system in regard to performance, but I presume you are referencing the subpar Realtek NICs not connecting? Depending on the distro, you likely won't have the driver and/or firmware package preinstalled to make it work.

Yup, and installing the proper driver is usually pretty simple. If you post the hardware (or just the output of lspci) and your distro, we can probably find the package for you.

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