ubuntu installation on hp.net laptop

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 at 19:21, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

> You are going to need to get this info, before you start. Esp. if it is a
> *new* laptop. *Important* info you will need:
>
> What WiFi chipset?

Agreed.

> I have no clue about HP laptops (why HP?). Lenovo laptops (Thinkpads) tend to
> have well supported Intel WiFi and generally work out-of-the-box.

+1

> Are you buying this at a store (Best Buy, etc.)? If so, bring a Linux Live USB
> stick to the store and try it out on the store model.

+1

> I have *always* bought older machines (used and/or refurbs off e-bay). And all
> of the laptops I have owned in recent times have been IBM or Lenovo Thinkpads.
> I have owned other makes, but the Thinkpads were solid machines and if (?) I
> ever buy another laptop, it will be a Lenovo Thinkpad. I would not even look
> at anything else.

Me too.

There are no guarantees in this business and Lenovo is not IBM, and
also note non-Thinkpad Lenovos are plastic junk -- it's not Lenovo
that matters,  but specifically Thinkpad -- but even so, older
Thinkpads are the best laptops you can buy.

I'd prefer a few-years-old Thinkpad to a brand-new anything else. And
that goes double for a budget model anything else.


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