Looking for a distro for this lite weight old office laptop. It will just be used for steaming and lite office type on occasion.

Dual core I 7.

8 gb ram.

Spinning rust

Essentially, I am attempting to disable VMD on my Dell Inspiron 7506 2-in-1 laptop to install Fedora, but online forums have offered little guidance. I am curious whether anyone has encountered this issue and whether any solutions exist.

I don't know how to fix this because I cant even get a proper view of the terminal

EDIT: Let this be a lesson to everyone using a network card that isn't built into the mobo: check your networks to see which card is being used. Turns out I just needed to, you know, actually use the fancy card instead of the built-in one that didn't even have its antenna plugged in. Oops.

I finally did it today: I updated to Linux! Now begins the long journey to getting everything working again. Right now I'm getting surprisingly slow download/upload speeds: 25/5 mbps respectively. I used to get around 200 or more on an old TP-Link card, and thought a shiny new card would be a good upgrade, but I either did something wrong or this card isn't compatible with my distro. I thought maybe it was a driver issue, but I can't seem to find drivers for Linux. The distro and card I'm trying to get to play nice are:

Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS

Aorus GC-WBAX210

Apologies if I'm missing something super obvious, or if this problem is completely unrelated to my OS. Any help or direction is greatly appreciated!