• AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialEnglish
    5·
    7 months 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…

    • SorryQuick@lemmy.ca
      2·
      7 months ago

      The nvidia driver has had this bug for a year now, still unfixed. Games will randomly crash with an Xid 109 error in dmesg. Some people (including myself) are unable to play games like Cyberpunk, Resident Evil 2-3-4-7-8 and Metro Exodus. And it’s not linked to proton either, it sometimes also crashes xorg itself, forcing a reboot. I’m starting to think nvidia will never bother fixing it.

  • akatsukilevi@kbin.social
    2·
    7 months ago

    Am I supposed to have Wifi driver issues? My laptop’s one always worked flawlessly without me having to even look at it

    • 0x4E4F@infosec.pubOPEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      Mhm… have tried it… not gonna try it again… gave up after 3 days, went back to Linux.

  • linuxdweeb@lemm.ee
    1·
    7 months 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

    • 0x4E4F@infosec.pubOPEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      Tell me you haven’t used more than 2 or 3 pieces of hardware in the past 20 years without telling me you haven’t used more than 2 or 3 pieces of hardware in the past 20 years.

    • Mr3Sepz@feddit.de
      0·
      7 months ago

      At least my notebook doesn’t support the newer wifi standards, that I would need at the university eduroam network.

      I always have to hook up my phone and use usb-tethering

  • JCreazy@midwest.socialEnglish
    1·
    7 months 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·
      7 months ago

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

  • Urist@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

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

    Trigger Warning

    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.

  • Norgur@kbin.social
    0·
    7 months ago

    The very evening I installed Linux for the first time (I think it was Ubuntu 12.04), my Wifi stick was the first major hurdle. I was a teenager, had no idea about package managers and such, but the drivers for my stick were only available in an uncompiled format, so I had to first learn what build utils and kernel dev packages were, download them and their dependencies onto the windows PC of my dad and copy them onto a CD.

    After I had figured all that out (took me.a while), I learned how to compile on the fly.

    After I had run ./configure and it finallyfinally ran through without error, the config script had this last line:

    Configure done successfully. Now type ‘make’ and pray

    Things have changed over the years, but they haven’t changed enough.

    • NaoPb@eviltoast.orgEnglish
      0·
      7 months ago

      Whenever I come across something I’d have to build myself, I just give up. No matter the instruction, there is always something wrong.

        • NaoPb@eviltoast.orgEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          Allright. You’ve convinced me not to give up.

          And that Rick Roll song perfectly sums up how I personally think of Linux. I will not be giving it up. And I will not be saying goodbye.

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
    0·
    7 months ago

    ReviOS for the Windows user. It’s not a OS, but a collection of scripts which convert Windows in what it should have been.

    • Quexotic@infosec.pub
      0·
      7 months ago

      Thank you internet stranger, I’m getting a new computer soon and I will be trying this!

      Is it smart enough to pull the activation code from the BIOS if I buy a computer that has that?

      • Koarnine@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        0·
        7 months ago

        Please do not trust modified windows installs based on old (22H2) update packs, you’re much better off debloating your fresh, up-to-date, already licensed install using some powershell wizardry…

        Chris Titus has made a gui for this that you can access with a single powershell command. He also has made a guide on which settings he recommends to debloat a fresh install.

        This way you aren’t entrusting your OS, privacy and data to some random unsecure repack. I can find the link for you if you would like :)

          • Koarnine@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            1·
            5 months ago

            Apologies for not having seen this until now, if you are still wondering and haven’t found the tool yourself, you can launch it by opening a windows terminal as admin and typing

            irm christitus.com/win | iex

            as soon as chocolatey is installed a gui will launch allowing you to easily install common software, uninstall bloat, apply tweaks (such as disabling telemetry), and control windows updates. It’s a great one stop shop for setting up any fresh/existing windows install, and is continuously updated with reliable and transparent documentation.

            If you would prefer a video about the tool, the latest one is here: https://youtu.be/GQBRrVGgB_Q