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this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2023
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Basically anything should work, I had one for a while running Arch + KDE. Wifi doesn't work out of the box (thanks Broadcom), but once you install the right driver it's perfectly fine.
Wl Kernel mod?
That works to get it going, but it's flaky. The older Broadcom chips need either the old reverse-engineered driver, or the old closed source driver Broadcom released.