Partial list of things you haven't tried or researched?
There is another list for realtek, you have to know the specific chip you need fw for.
bcm20702a1--fw BCM20702A1
bcm20702b0--fw BCM20702B0
bcm20703a1--fw BCM20703A1
bcm43142a0--fw BCM43142A0
bcm4335c0--fw BCM4335C0
bcm4350c5--fw BCM4350C5
bcm4356a2--fw BCM4356A2
Linux kernels are YEARS ahead of anything MS or Mac can handle.
It just takes a little learning and patience to deal with a system that belongs in the future.
Linux users complain about the kernel being so advanced and big covering industrial hw and hw not yet released in the market.
.. safest bet is get a 2nd clean ssd replace, install w11 then copy user data into new installation.
I would advise #linux over anything proprietary to begin with.
If you want to really go the w11 way it is not as restrictive as they make it sound, in fact in 90% of the cases it says it can't it can.
8GB of ram and GPT partitioning!
Many w10 were upgraded from w7-8-9 and retained the DOS/mbr and w10 would work with either part.table. Win-setup says it can't auto-upgrade but it can install if you delete the partitions and start with clean disk.
I hope you mean touchpad by touch, it has nothing to do with desktops, it relates xinput libinput synaptics sw common for X and wayland, window managers. If it works it does so before desktop layer is drawn, in some cases it can work on console as well with the right sw.
s6/66 simplifies dependency of running/starting, automatically enables an s6-log for each service/daemon/bundle it is much faster and smaller than systemd (by a factor of 10 maybe), and once it is up and running it is virtually impossible to bring down without its own routine. Servers have run consistenly for a decade with s6, including skarnet.org
It is not personal it is counter propaganda, linux = fedora = ubuntu = systemd = debian = mint ....
No real options there, just an alternative MSwin
There is also the propaganda that says Linux is Plasma or Gnome ...
There is much much more that doesn't get corporate promotion and people rarely ever hear about it.
A window manager is enough with any customizable drop menu, can open a file manager of choice, create a folder or file, no desktop is needed.
worker ~/.Desktop
or whatever filemanager one is using
How much does it pay to promote IBM products with convoluted software as that is really linux?
Since I am financially strained I might consider, with a very heavy ethical objection counteracting my need for cash.
The lawyers it takes to call this crap Open and Free System must have become millionaires by now.
I assume that Manj follows #Arch and doesn't improvise on sys dependencies. Definitely not poor.
Arch-archives by date, means you can build a system exactly as it was fully upgraded on a specific date, and the system works just like it used to.
Other systems that may carry 3 versions of the same library because different sw use different versions are the ones with the problem. Except for redundancy and space the system is not very coherent..
Some people have spare time to learn a thing or two, some people have spare cash to buy new hw when MS tells them to.
We are not all equal :)
We have a government that enforces and maintains inequality, otherwise equalization would come natural, and with some social organization.
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