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[owlectomy]

"My son installed Linux on my computer and now I can't connect to the wireless network."

I thought, this is how Aquaman feels when they finally have an adventure that relies on being able to talk to fish. This is my Obscure Super Power, finally coming into play.

(It was Mint anyway, so it was easy, but I don't know if any of my coworkers have even seen Linux before. And lest you be annoyed with this guy's son for installing a weird OS on his dad's computer, it was a really ancient laptop, so I'm betting it runs a lot better with Mint than with Windows.)

(I am continuously threatening to install Linux on my mom's laptop. But I think the fact that I keep threatening it reduces the total number of tech questions I get!)

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[sasha_feather]

Did you jump up and down and do a fist pump in the air?

[owlectomy]

I was trying not to look inappropriately delighted that someone had a Linux problem, lest it be the kind of Linux problem that involves opening up three different terminal windows, eight different Google searches, and a multilingual cursing dictionary.