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Re:Why I switched from OS X to Linux by voidlogic on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @09:52PM (#13379489)
>but wifi drivers are always an issue

This is not true if you have Intel wifi hardware, which is a lot (a majority?) of laptops.

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Re:Why I switched from OS X to Linux by herbst on Thursday January 12, 2017 @01:11AM (#13380153)
Its not true these days anyway as you can just use the windows drivers if everything else fails. Which works perfectly except the initial 10 minute setup.
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Re:Why I switched from OS X to Linux by pantalaimon on Thursday January 12, 2017 @05:34AM (#13381236)
> Its not true these days anyway as you can just use the windows drivers if everything else fails.

Is ndiswrapper still being developed?

It only supports Windows XP drivers and crashed the kernel when I tried to get my TL-WN8200ND (RTL8192CU) working with it on 64 bit Ubuntu 16.04

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Re:Why I switched from OS X to Linux by herbst on Friday January 13, 2017 @12:38AM (#13388676)
I am pretty sure i got a win7 driver working without any further issues. I could be wrong tho
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