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I spent a year on Linux Mint, but I'll never use it again for these reasons
Quoting: I spent a year on Linux Mint, but I'll never use it again for these reasons —
I have a Lenovo IdeaPad Y70, and it took Linux poorly. On some machines, Mint just reads the laptop wrong, and that happened on mine. The first big problem was when my laptop just decided wireless was off, so Wi-Fi and Bluetooth died completely, even when everything was fine.
The thing about Linux is that nothing on screen tells you how to fix it if it’s an issue like this. You're going to have to go through forums to figure it out. The issue is that the wireless chips in a lot of older laptops were built with Windows in mind, not Mint. Mint's built-in drivers are generic, so they get shaky with those chips. You might run Wi-Fi and Bluetooth together and watch the connection drop every few minutes. Or you close the lid, open it, and the card just doesn't wake up.
Getting it stable usually means installing a driver from outside Mint's normal sources or messing with startup settings. It isn't hard, but a new Linux user would never think about trying it.