XPost: alt.os.linux.mint, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.computer.workshop   
   From: MikeE@ster.invalid   
      
   David wrote:   
   > On the Dell website, though, this time, I was able to carry out a   
   > hardware scan. Here's a screenshot of the failures indicated:-   
   > https://i.ibb.co/XjYDWtv/IMG-3158.jpg   
   >   
   > Any comment beyond time to recycle it?!!   
      
   The screenshot doesn't like the PCI bus situation.   
      
   In my world, if something is working, it is working, aside from the   
   possibility of something NOT working or not working right, whether or   
   not it is practical to 'fix'.   
      
   To me, except for the case speaker sound, the laptop is working.  To me,   
   personally, I would rather be running a linux on it than W10; or perhaps   
   I would rather be running a dual boot W10 and a modern/current linux   
   whose end of update life isn't near.   
      
   I would keep the W10 install, add a linux distro of your choice install   
   as an alternate boot trying not to mess up your W10 install again.   
   Personally, I don't need the sound except occasionally; on the occasion   
   which I needed sound, I would use the headset plug for Win or linux.   
      
   This is cross-posted excessively.  Just because some topic of your   
   interest may deserve posting in some choice of groups doesn't mean that   
   it should be posted to all of the groups that it possibly pertains.   
      
      
      
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   Mike Easter   
      
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