• bjorney@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    Ticking the non-free driver box was child’s play. As late as like 2012 I remember needing to download NDISwrapper so I could make the windows drivers work through a compatibility layer

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        11 months ago

        When I bought my laptop i was using windows and didn’t research Linux compatibility :(

        And yup. A decade ago was when Linux turned a corner on the wifi driver front, 11 years ago was hell

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          11 months ago

          I recall jaunty jackalope being the Ubuntu version that became my full time os. It was that version that my IBM x31 had everything taken care of on install with the third party drivers checked. I feel like the LTS version following that was where you could buy a generation previous of any hardware and it’d work without much fuss.

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          11 months ago

          When I bought my laptop i was using windows and didn’t research Linux compatibility :(

          I apologize for my general grumpiness this morning. Totally reasonable. :-)

          And yup. A decade ago was when Linux turned a corner on the wifi driver front, 11 years ago was hell

          I lol’d. :-)