I’m a complete beginner and I’m considering switching to pop os on my laptop (currently running windows 11)

I’m in demo mode and so I can check for compatibility. Most stuff is working great except for wifi.

I was able to connect to my phone’s hotspot but not my home network. I tried both the 2.4GHZ and 5GHZ. Every time I try entering the correct password the “authentication required” window keeps popping up and my computer won’t connect.

During the boot process I received the following error message:  “Failed to start Nvidia powered service”. This laptop has two GPUs and I will try to run a demo with non NVidia install. Do you think the two issues are related?

So yes before installing popOS I want to be sure this is something that can be fixed.

  • rando@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    For wifi try changing security from wpa3 to wpa2 (checking around network settings etc)

    GPU issue seems unrelated, however I don’t have any idea.