Been using Series Guide for years. Love it.

With your information, and realizing I still have made virtually no progress…

Ugh. This is ridiculous. I was aware Apple did shiesty stuff, but never heard of anyone else.

The difference is staggering, and I have to believe something similar has happened.

This laptop was previously my test bed for Linux itself. Old Faithful, if you know what I mean. Got me confident enough to actually use Linux. Compile stuff. Tinker. 🥰

Got me to acquire another, newer laptop for Linux. Confidence, even if only a drop.

Thank you for replying and sharing. I can’t think of anything else being the issue.

Corroded… that’s something I hadn’t considered…

This is my “outside” laptop… been using it in places I wouldn’t want to risk a more expensive machine… 🤔 think I’ll disassemble it and check for corrosion…

Could be something in the process of breaking… could explain the erratic behaviors, I guess?

I haven’t tried any other distro yet. I’ve been with Debian my whole Linux life. But I might try XFCE again… that was my preferred desktop for years, only the new update triggered me to try Gnome properly.

And… I totally broke my touchpad trying to disable the touch screen.

Couldn’t figure it out, so another reinstall! I’ve done 5 now, and to hell with Wayland. All this time wasted trying to do something that apparently just ain’t supported yet.

I had it working (well, disabled) on Wayland on my earlier frankenbian… ugh.

I’ve done that again, and now have a working Gnome install…

But I cannot get the touch screen disabled no matter what I try on it.

udevadm doesn’t do it x11conf edit doesn’t do it

Losing my mind with this 🤦‍♂️

Machine still complains ath10k is missing on bootup, too. I don’t see how it isn’t on this media when it was on the machine after the initial update to bookworm (many installs ago now, since I’ve been trying to get this installed the last 2 days)