> basic stuff like wifi Wi-fi is not basic. Having written a wifi driver, that’s something I’m comfortable stating unequivocally. The hardware is almost alwa

> basic stuff like wifi Wi-fi is not basic. Having written a wifi driver, that’s something I’m comfortable stating unequivocally. The hardware is almost always proprietary and undocumented, and in many cases (looking at you, Broadcom), a poorly-designed shitshow of complex errata, proprietary magic numbers required for initialization, and in general, an absolute dogshit technology stack. The only reason Linux has working Wi-Fi at all tends to be because it was used to power a lot of cheap consumer access points, and Wi-Fi chipset manufacturers released binary and open-source Linux drivers — generally of horrific quality, but drivers nonetheless.