• VindictiveJudge
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    2 months ago

    Yes, but it’s significantly less automatic. Testing distros on an old laptop, Debian wouldn’t support the network card out of the box and I had to use USB tethering from my phone to get the necessary drivers off the internet. Ubuntu just had them in the image and installed them automatically.

    • @pmc@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      22 months ago

      Was this with the most recent version of Debian? Bookworm includes non-free firmware with the installer now.

      • VindictiveJudge
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        22 months ago

        Looking at release dates, just a couple days before Bookworm came out. I’ll have to try that one.