• AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Those have gotten a lot better in recent years. Last time I had an issue with WiFi drivers was in 2016.

    Graphics drivers, on the other hand, especially Optimus…

      • remotelove@lemmy.ca
        1·
        2 years ago

        I never have. Just thinking about WiFi and Bluetooth drivers on random laptops still puts me into a full flashback state. (My first experience was back in 2002, I think?)

        However, getting all of that stuff working was the best learning experience I ever had. At the time, I was just learning about IT security and WiFi pcap was all the rage back then.

        • quantumantics@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Same, flashbacks to being in college trying to get Wi-Fi working in Fedora on my laptop and then struggling to get it to work with my uni’s new Wi-Fi system. Frustrating, but a great learning experience as you said.

        • 0x4E4F@infosec.pubOPEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I never have. Just thinking about WiFi and Bluetooth drivers on random laptops still puts me into a full flashback state. (My first experience was back in 2002, I think?)

        • anonproxy00@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          I still tell myself bluetooth is unnesessary and I’ll fix it eventually or it’ll just work iteself out…

  • linuxdweeb@lemm.ee
    1·
    2 years ago

    Tell me you haven’t used Linux in the past ~20 years without telling me you haven’t used Linux in the past ~20 years

  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Lemmy needs polls. The last time I had problems with WIFI drivers was… 15 years ago? On a laptop bought in a supermarket that originally came with Windows Vista. Oh, and the raspberry pi - fuck raspberry pis. They can’t pick wifi module worth shit.

  • JCreazy@midwest.socialEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    All my Wi-Fi just works on any machine I have Linux on. But yeah years ago this was not the case.

    • Wugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Mine doesn’t work. Definitely linux’s fault that I destroyed its wifi giblets while moving my PC a bit too aggressively

  • beerclue@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    The last time I had an issue with Linux drivers was in 2002, trying to set up a pppoe connection. I had no smartphone and there were no YouTube, Reddit, wikis, forums etc.

    Back in 2016 I helped install some wifi drivers on a friend’s laptop in Ubuntu 16.04, which was not really a big deal.

    I feel like these memes are made by Windows users :)

  • TheMissingBit@lemm.ee
    0·
    2 years ago

    Lots of people saying this is an old problem , but I have a new IdeaPad I bought a few months ago and any non-rolling release distro I find, the wifi hardware isn’t detected.

    Until just a few weeks ago I couldn’t find any solution. Fortunately I finally found a way to build the drivers, but it still requires me to tether my phone to get internet long enough to download the source.

    So the problem might be better but it’s not the non-issue some people are pretending it is.