Got a new laptop for my job today, you can compare it with the one I was using until now.

Old laptop: better keyboard
New laptop: better everything else

Hopefully this one doesn't shut down if I play a movie with Firefox open

Ok, I can see they really splurged on this laptop!
It's so new that the WiFi adapter is not recognised by Debian non-free...

I'll have to waste some time on this tomorrow...

Soooo kernel 5.10 doesn't have the necessary drivers
Kernel 5.18 does but crashes...

Other kernel versions are not available on Debian repositories

No idea how to go about this...

@rastinza Good luck with that Nvidia GPU and Linux. If you are using an open source driver for the GPU then use the proprietary driver. Monitor the boot process for more useful information. I'm guessing it's the GPU.

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You were right; installing the proprietary drivers did in fact solve the problem

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@rastinza I had a WNIC on the first system I tried Linux on and every distribution went into Kernel Panic except for DSL. The driver would load automatically and cause a Kernel Panic. It was the first and only time I had to physically remove hardware to get Linux running.

In retrospect, it was a good start with Linux. At the time I was rather upset that it had taken a couple of weeks to get working. Within a year or so I was hardening Kernels and custom compiling for different purposes. That was a decade ago.

It's a pleasure to help as I wouldn't have made it this far without the help of others.

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