Same thing here, all AMD/Wayland with no issues outside of the ones I cause :p

People shit on Ubuntu because its owned by a for profit corporation that hosts an app manager that isnt open source on the backend. Not sure why you heard hate for mint, its perfectly fine. As a beginner I’d definitely go for Mint. If you Genuinely want to try but feel like you need someone to hold your hand, I can add you on Matrix (or discord… ugh) if you want a person to reference.

this is the way

Thank you for such a nice response. It’s nice to know that people are still able to be rational and understanding of one another’s situations even if/when their current states in life are different. I hope you have a great rest of your day today. 🙂

I’m glad you make it work but I hope youre aware not everyone is given the same opportunities you are.

You mean you’ve become used to buying better hardware every few years. Some of us are poor and are still kicking a 2012 Thinkpad we got off eBay in high school.

Awesome, Thanks

Ideally I want to use wpa3 as its the latest standard and all of my devices (except windows) are able to use it. I left the model number in the other response you left :P

Its a “Sager N870HK”

yes.

I do have professors that dont require it, but I also have professors that have a stick somewhere it doesn’t belong and just expect the computer to teach us everything. I understand where youre coming from though

I don’t use Reddit and like I said in the OP most of what I found on Lemmy relating to tech help were dead (no posts in over 10 months). Can’t use a VM due to lockdown browser.

Win 11, Something like Intel® Wireless-AC 6000. I dont remember if its 6258 or something like that, I just know its let’s than 9000 which is the minimum Intel requires for wpa3 for whatever reason. I can find the exact model # tomorrow if youre interested

Find me an Intel driver for a pre 9000 series laptop adaptor that supports wpa3 for windows and we can talk about “keeping it up to date” :)

Not sure why you got down voted, this is what I’m currently doing to work around it

I could do this if I wanted to get kicked out of college and lose 5k tuition

They only allow certain students in specific programs to borrow and I dont fit the criteria. Its a Really shitty situation.

Lockdown browser (government sponsored spyware)

Unfortunately its due to Lockdown browser which doesn’t allow virtualization no matter how obfuscated I try to make it.

Well this sucks. I have no idea what to do then lol