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what's your current linux distro? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Seconding this experience with Mint 21.3, although on a laptop here. I just wanted something that works without much fucking about, and it delivers.

Do you use both a personal desktop and laptop? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Yes, I have both. The desktop is pretty beefy and runs Windows (for now) and is mostly used for games and Adobe stuff. The laptop is a Thinkpad running Linux Mint, and is my couch computer. I use it for normal web browsing type stuff, and for managing my home lab server that sits in a closet in my basement. I also play some lightweight games on it via Steam/proton.

I just finished setting up Linux Mint for an old buddy of mine on his old dog of a laptop, rendering it useful once again! in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I’m guessing it has 3GB of ram and 256MB is being eaten due to being shared video memory.

Linux continues to be above 4% on the desktop in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now that gaming is effectively a solved problem thanks to Proton, Adobe Lightroom is just about the only thing keeping my desktop PC on Windows. My laptop is already running Linux. I’ve tried the FOSS alternatives but none of them fits my workflow like Lightroom. This is a me problem more so than a problem with any of these pieces of software.

Intel WiFi 6E in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I can see the same SSID on all three bands now in wavemon, but my computer only connects to it on the 5GHz band, channel 40.

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Intel WiFi 6E (midwest.social)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi, I'm running Linux Mint 21.3 with kernel 6.5.0-21 on a Lenovo Thinkpad T14 gen 2 with an AMD Ryzen 7 CPU, and most relevant to my question, an Intel AX210 WiFi controller.

It connects just fine to 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks, but about 90% of the time it cannot see my 6GHz network, which is operating on a separate SSID. Sometimes it apparently randomly will see the 6GHz network, and it will connect and work fine until the next time the computer goes to sleep, after which it will only see 2.4/5GHz networks again.

I've been messing around trying to troubleshoot it, which led me to installing wavemon, and I discovered that if I run wavemon with elevated permissions and make it scan for networks it will see the 6GHz network, and when that happens it immediately becomes available to choose through Cinnamon's GUI, and it will work fine again until the next time the computer sleeps. If I run wavemon again after waking from sleep and make it scan for networks, 6GHz functionality will work again.

Anyone know what's going on here? I should add that I am in the US where the 6GHz band is legal and should be enabled in the Intel iwlwifi driver. It's almost like something needs to happen to trigger the 6GHz radio into waking up or something.