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As a computer engineer who frequently gets asked “What do I do about Windows 7?” Your cover story on

LXF259 titled ‘Escape Windows’ was of great interest as an alternative. I therefore chose one of my lesser used laptops and proceeded to install Pop!_OS on it, as a dual boot with a trial of Windows 10.

Windows 10 had installed okay. Linux, however, didn’t. It ran fine as a basic system, but under no circumstances would it find any kind of Wi-Fi that was available.

I persevered, and discovered that the fitted Wi-Fi card was not supported in the basic install. Once I changed the

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