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    [–] teft@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    Not in 11 that i've seen but drivers used to be ridiculous on windows. The funny thing is it was even worse on linux for a hot minute. I remember borking my nic multiple times on slackware 3 and having to hoof it to my friend's house to download a driver way back in olden times. I learned a fuckload about linux and networking during those years breaking things.

    [–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    I definitely remember the times when wlan was a PITA on Linux : )

    [–] addie@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago

    Oh, what was that thing called, ndiswrapper or similar, where you downloaded the windows versions of the drivers and then wrapped them up and hoped they worked, and good luck with power saving or resume from sleep.

    Don't get me wrong; amazing that it worked even as well as it did, but glad we've got native drivers now. A small step forward every day and soon you'll have gone a long way.