For a given device, sometimes one linux distro perfectly supports a hardware component. Then if I switch distros, the same component no longer functions at all, or is very buggy.
How do I find out what the difference is?
For a given device, sometimes one linux distro perfectly supports a hardware component. Then if I switch distros, the same component no longer functions at all, or is very buggy.
How do I find out what the difference is?
Could be varoius reasons. Some common ones:
You can narrow down which distros work and which hardware support is missing. Also look at archwiki for that specific piece of hardware. You can find a lot of useful information even if you don’t use Arch.
how do I find out about these?
Are they specific to my system? Some kind of decision the installer makes? So I would investigate locally on the device?
Or will it be a general distro thing? Am I looking on their website to find out?
No, look up what drivers/modules/packages your hardware need and load them/upgrade/install on the buggy distro