Re: Why does Dell hate Linux so much? Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by mickeydoodle I've just acquired a Dell laptop, it seems to hate Linux! Touch pad doesn't work properly, Wireless won't connect and it's sooo slow! Works fine with Windows! Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by toneewa …is going to work from a previous Windows installation. Delete all and start over. Create a new recovery partition …for the current Windows. Install all your updates, and… [Reset to factory](https://www.windowscentral.com/how-reset-windows-11-pc-factory-settings) is under Settings -> … Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by Reverend Jim … reinstall and configure all my apps I figured I'd start from a known (to me) state. Trying to reset to… SSD either. Incidentally, the touchpad did not work in the Windows PE environment either. Next attempt was to boot into kbuntu… partition and formatted as NTFS then boot back into my Windows 11 install USB. 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