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It was an external USB adapter but Manjaro didn’t like it. But yeah that one thing isn’t enough to give up Linux. Windows keeps killing certain printers when Windows updates, that is a fair amount of trouble to fix sometimes too.
cortana drove me nuts . i like being able to search/type in the start menu, that was a good freature to add, but cortana along with web searching felt messy and invasive.
I’ve heard of people allegedly losing personal files in updates but i never experienced that problem.
at one time i had a laundry list of reasons i disliked windows but over the years I’ve refined down to “not my cup of tea”.
I get rid of Cortana every time it pops up. Last time I installed Windows I somehow enabled OneDrive even though I definitely did not want it. It wound up trying to back up my gigabytes of game save files and mods to the cloud.
Oops, this was meant as a reply to someone about the TP-Link AC2100 router in anothrr window, ugh. Too many google results open.
Let me google the chipset for that one if you haven’t found drivers that work yet. For some of the Realtek based ones, there’s some you can compile yourself by morrownr.
i used to hate how long installing win xp took, updating, then getting my favorite 3rd party software installed, and so on.
don’t get me wrong i liked xp, but reinstalling windows, any of them, always felt like a huge chore.
linux is much better in that regard. especially when you dig in and start automating stuff with scripting.
Installing Linux is fun unless it doesn’t like your wifi adapter and you’re a noob.
fair enough. I’ve seen a number of people having issues with wifi on linux across the web.
i prefer wired connection for my pc regardless of support and only use wifi for tv, phone, etc.
best practice is a spare ethernet cable and if a built in wifi adapter won’t work, research external usb ones if you need wifi that bad.
personally I’d rather find a work around or try a different distro than give up and go back to windows over a wifi adapter.
It was an external USB adapter but Manjaro didn’t like it. But yeah that one thing isn’t enough to give up Linux. Windows keeps killing certain printers when Windows updates, that is a fair amount of trouble to fix sometimes too.
cortana drove me nuts . i like being able to search/type in the start menu, that was a good freature to add, but cortana along with web searching felt messy and invasive.
I’ve heard of people allegedly losing personal files in updates but i never experienced that problem.
at one time i had a laundry list of reasons i disliked windows but over the years I’ve refined down to “not my cup of tea”.
I get rid of Cortana every time it pops up. Last time I installed Windows I somehow enabled OneDrive even though I definitely did not want it. It wound up trying to back up my gigabytes of game save files and mods to the cloud.
Which one? What was the chip?
TP-Link AC600. I didn’t buy it with Linux in mind, but I assumed it was popular enough that it should work.
Oops, this was meant as a reply to someone about the TP-Link AC2100 router in anothrr window, ugh. Too many google results open.
Let me google the chipset for that one if you haven’t found drivers that work yet. For some of the Realtek based ones, there’s some you can compile yourself by morrownr.
I did get it working but it took a lot of Googling and config file/terminal work.
If you ever need a wifi adapter that will definitely work with Linux (plus reviews!): https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi/blob/becbea2d5213438e25dc3d35f161e1a0d8a1b12f/home/USB_WiFi_Adapters_that_are_supported_with_Linux_in-kernel_drivers.md