On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 11:06 AM Timothy M Butterworth < timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 10:57 AM Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 7:55 PM Default User <hunguponcont...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > I just got a brand new Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series 3511 laptop. Came >> with Windows (ugh!) preinstalled. >> > My old Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series 3542 laptop (made in 2014) just >> died. So this one should work, right? >> > >> > No. >> >> Also see https://linux-hardware.org/ . It is a database of supported >> hardware. >> >> I think it includes the minimum kernel version for support of a >> particular chipset, once you drill in. >> >> Jeff > > > If you are missing drivers or firmware then I recommend installing Debian > 12 Bookworm. You can download the live installer from: > https://get.debian.org/images/weekly-live-builds/amd64/iso-hybrid/ Debian > 11 is old and does not work with the latest hardware without installing > from debian backports which I do not recommend. Debian 12 is already frozen > for release testing. I have been running Debian 12 for over a year now and > only ran into one problem yesterday. I was having problems installing > mariadb-server. I made a work around hack today and got it to install. > > Tim > > > -- > ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ > ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system > ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ > ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀ > 1) I did check out https://linux-hardware.org/. My old machine (now torn apart) was listed there. My new machine does not seem to be listed there. Not surprising, since manufactured in 2023-January. 2) I did try a fresh install to the old machine of a Bookworm daily build about a month ago. It almost all the way through the non-graphical, expert-mode install, only to hard fail at refusing to install grub. More than once. Since I now have a working setup, I think I will just patiently wait a few months until soon after the official release of Bookworm Stable, then either upgrade or fresh install then.
