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[โ€“] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ah so the old machines weren't working properly before the move. Gotcha. In my experience Mint has been good at using its defaults to get WIFI working. Hell I probably would have skipped over dealing with the track pad and just plugged a mouse in and let Mint fix that part after. I have been running into the problem that all those mice laying around are USB A, and laptops now seem to have moved completely away from adding one.

Hopefully the move went well for you

[โ€“] flameleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

All of the issues were caused by Windows. Switching them to Mint was seamless experience and everyone has been happier after the move.

You can get adapters to convert USB A to C. YMMV for that, though. I'm not the primary user of these computers, so I needed to make sure the trackpads were working properly.