i’ve only ever had to fuck around with wifi drivers when installing Arch
Everytime i’ve installed ubuntu on a laptop it’s worked fine out of the box, including on the same laptop i had to fuck around with drivers on for Arch
i settled on Manjaro in the end for my desktop PCs. it has the flexibility of Arch including use of the AUR but i don’t have to put much effort into setting it up
My WiFi on arch is so all over the place when it connects to my phone hotspot. Connects, disconnects, “oh what’s the password again?” Otherwise router based WiFi is fine.
Actually the Bluetooth is somewhat even more reliable than the Windows one. And it waits for you to connect manually instead of auto connecting to that one speaker you happen to have on.
No, but apparently I have one of the only WiFi/Bluetooth chip of MediaTek Corps. MT Series that is inexplicably not supported. Most others of that lineup are, just this exact one isn’t.
i learned from my recent incursion into setting up a concept ubuntu build for snapdragon laptops that you can pull binaries from the windows partition to make the wifi drivers work
did you try and use Arch?
i’ve only ever had to fuck around with wifi drivers when installing Arch
Everytime i’ve installed ubuntu on a laptop it’s worked fine out of the box, including on the same laptop i had to fuck around with drivers on for Arch
I love Arch, but it is not for beginners. WiFi and Bluetooth are both sketchy. Or, at least, they used to be.
i settled on Manjaro in the end for my desktop PCs. it has the flexibility of Arch including use of the AUR but i don’t have to put much effort into setting it up
My WiFi on arch is so all over the place when it connects to my phone hotspot. Connects, disconnects, “oh what’s the password again?” Otherwise router based WiFi is fine.
Actually the Bluetooth is somewhat even more reliable than the Windows one. And it waits for you to connect manually instead of auto connecting to that one speaker you happen to have on.
No, but apparently I have one of the only WiFi/Bluetooth chip of MediaTek Corps. MT Series that is inexplicably not supported. Most others of that lineup are, just this exact one isn’t.
i learned from my recent incursion into setting up a concept ubuntu build for snapdragon laptops that you can pull binaries from the windows partition to make the wifi drivers work