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Because there are lots and lots of chipsets that work somewhere in the range of horribly to not-at-all in Linux (Realtek and Broadcom spring to mind for poor Li
by zootboy 9y ago
Because there are lots and lots of chipsets that work somewhere in the range of horribly to not-at-all in Linux (Realtek and Broadcom spring to mind for poor Linux support with their WiFi chipsets). And any driver that hasn't been upstreamed creates a boatload of work for the support engineers, since kernel updates tend to break out-of-tree drivers on a semi-regular basis.
- AstralStorm 9y agoYou have a bit outdated info here. Both are generally fine considering recent hardware. The drivers are upstream now. (The problem is nonredistributable blobs.) Ralink is fine too. In fact most trouble is with new Atheros chips after their latest corporate takeover.