I am currently trying to escape Windows and want to switch to Linux Mint as my daily driver.

However when I first tried it on a spare laptop everything worked except the WiFi. A kernel update fixed it because it also has ethernet.

My question is can I boot to a live USB on the ethernet laptop, update the kernel on the live USB and use that on the other laptop to install mint with working WiFi?

I tried to use the internet from my phone via Bluetooth but it was so slow it was unusable.

If this is a dumb question I apologise as I’ve been using Linux for less than a day at this point.

  • Stormy1701OPEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Well the USB WiFi works fine.

    However now my issue is I can’t install Mint onto the laptop. It keeps saying it can’t install GRUB onto the SSD.

    I think it’s because even though I’ve deleted the windows partitions using the Mint installer the ASU’s BIOS still has Windows Bootloader as an option.

    Hopefully taking the SSD out of the laptop and fully erasing it will let me install Mint.