It may be just file corruption. Try running chdsk.exe /f C: in the command prompt. If that doesn't work, try dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth. Keep your virtual NIC online for the second command, it may try to download updates from MS if local files are corrupt and the WinSxS backups are corrupt as well.
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Linux used to be bad, but it evolved A LOT in terms of drivers support while windows just kinda stayed the same.
Agree on that part. It has gotten a lot better.
Still, I was hoping that they'll eventually solve some of the problems with the WiFi hardware back in the ndiswrapper days. As it turns out, it's 50/50. Some of it has drivers, some don't. Sure I could go hunting for untested unreliable alpha stage drivers and compile them myself, but I was kinda hoping that we would be passed that on over 95, 96% of the hardware there is out there.
Of course not, but they sure as hell require A LOT less maintenace than our "modern cars".
It got you from point A to point B, didn't it?
If there were more silent potesters, you would think they'd actually wonder why that is happening ๐ค.
If the card supports at least WPA2, it should support WPA2 Enterprise as well. Only cards manufactured in the last few years support WPA3. I doubt they would enforce WPA3 only.
The proprietary stuff is shipped as "firmware" (even though that's not always the case) allongside the distro's kernel. My best guess is that some distro out there (Ubuntu most probably) has obtained permission from a bunch of manufacturers to ship this "firmware" allongside it's kernel. The rest of the distro's are just riding this train, repackaging the firmware packages (if they can do it and redistribute it, why can't we ๐คท).
I might be mistaken, but this is the only thing that makes sense to me. Maybe it's a semi-coordinated joint effor as well, like someone obtains permission to share firmware, writes to a bunch of maintainers and devs that "this and this" binary blob is free for redistribution and it gets picked up by most popular distros out there.
Yeah, it works with less and less apps. The custom patches are good though, but they require you to have THE EXACT SAME version that the author had ๐. It's noted, but hard to obtain most of the time (usually, a few versions behind the lastes available).
Trust me, it is. There is some obscure hardware out there. Plus, a lot of us still use hardware that was late XP time released and ndiswrapper was still around. So, for some of these cards, there is still no drivers for Linux (or buggy/unstable ones).
No, I would rather keep that to myself. I think you get the idea though (it's a plaugue in almost any Balkan country).
I could share that info in private if you'd like.
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