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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I think it very depends on your hardware. I, personally, never had problems with it, on thinkpad which I use right now WiFi drivers were out of box even in Gentoo minimal ISO(It uses iwlwifi). But, every hardware that I have is about 10yo. And I think I haven't any non-intel WiFi-cards.

But also one of my friends had to compile drivers for his card manually from github, and second friend had issues with his WiFi constantly disconnecting which we couldn't solve.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And also I never had nvidia chips, I have one very old from AMD, and other computers use just intel integrated graphic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I use whatever integrated I can get 😂. Don't game, 2 monitors is more than enough for me, so 🤷 😂.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

That might also be a general network drivers vs. kernel version problem as well. I've had that on some Ubuntu falvors on various cards, it isn't specific to just wi-fi, it happened on lan as well (just disconnects for a few ms and then connects again).

And yeah, one of the many reasons why I usually buy second hand hardware as well. One, it's a lot cheaper, two, drivers for Linux are usually not a problem 😁.