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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

LPT: Swapping Wifi modules is (sometimes at least) stupidly easy to do. I had a shitty

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Realtek wifi card

and bought an Intel card to replace it for about 30 bucks. Begone random disconnects and packet drops. Note that this was on a laptop and it was still just an issue of removing a few screws and swapping modules.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

wifi drivers are fine nowadays

still have issues with some webcams tho

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Printer are worse. try to get a decade old brother to print more than a half page without completely freezing and needing a hard restart. driver is unmaintained unfortunately.

on Windows the printer works perfect though. which makes me quite unhappy :|

wifi on the other hand is not a problem i can remember. even on a 15 year old laptop, the AUR has a driver that it extracts from a ancient .deb and then patches it to make it work with modern kernels. lovely.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What about cups, they have no driver for that printer there?

I have a LaserJet 1000, 20+ years old, only works Linux and Windows x86 😂... so I just set up a peint server and shared it 🤷.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's the newer Wi-Fi chips that have issues, those for which drivers aren't yet released. There always seems to be a year-long delay between the next gen laptops being released and the wifi drivers for them.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't the main problem that most of them are proprietary, so they can't be shipped automatically if you want to avoid shipping a distro with proprietary software?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The state of coreboot on modern hardware

The security problems of Linux over Android

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Every wireless adapter I've used in Linux for the last 10 years has worked flawlessly.

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