• Urist@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      Laptops with Realtek wifi often sucks monkey balls. I swapped mine for an Intel one to get rid of dropped packets.

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      10 months ago

      At the time, I think I had uncommon hardware. I was trying to get Linux going on the cheapest little notebook you can imagine. I also got the same retort from support forums at the time, so my problem obviously wasn’t widespread. It was just the most definitive effort into Linux I had made, and I was just getting rebuffed by what I saw as silly little problems.

      That was close to a decade ago now, though. After so much faffing around on the Steam Deck I think I’m ready to give Linux another stab.

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        10 months ago

        Aye, it’s pretty uncommon these days to find Wi-Fi that doesn’t just work out of the box. Can indeed happen on occasion though. Usually if there’s no wiki entry on the issue, the community is pretty good about helping out.

        I would definitely give it another go. I’ve been daily driving for about a decade now - I didn’t personally have any issues back then other than some games being pita or not working at all with WINE. But Linux gaming has made huge steps in recent years.

        Technically I still duel boot and have always done (for just in case) but I can’t even remember the last time I booted into Windows.