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Message: [QUOTE="diapered, post: 209802, member: 143752"] Same, I don't think wifi has really been a problem for linux since ~8 years ago (unless you are using a distro like Debian or Arch which doesn't do any handholding for configuring your hardware). Yea, back in the day wifi could be a nightmare, but I think kernel/driver/wrapper support is fairly complete across most hardware today. Aside from small annoyances logging in, I have never had a wifi problem (poor connection, dropping etc.) with mint, manjaro or garuda. To be fair though, I only buy lenovo laptops. Someone told me years ago they are generally more linux friendly (not sure how true that is), so I have always just stuck with them, so maybe that's why I have never really had problems? However, they are the "budget" lenovo options with cheap realtek chips and apparently realtek are more likely to have issues (from what I saw from forums), but not for me... Maybe just lucky? I did run into an odd wifi problem recently and would like to see if anyone can explain why my fix worked, but again it was just an annoying login issue for one network, nothing major. The network in question uses a browser login in page, but it would not connect to the authentication server when opened, and this was a network I had previously connected to before no problem. I saw someone on the garuda forums with a different issue and someone suggested to boot into a live usb then boot back to the native installation. Well, I had my live usb with me and thought, "well, why not give it a try?" and I WAS able to log in no problems on live install and when I booted back to the native installation it was fixed O_o Anyone know why that worked? [/QUOTE]

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