If you are running it in a VM or use WSL, start dual-booting.

If you're already dual-booting, make Linux your primary OS.

It's not hard, I promise! Most distros are very straightforward to install.

When you use Micro$oft Windows, you are letting Bill Gates microchip your balls using 5g towers.

Using proprietary operating systems makes you a lib. Stalin wrote at length about this and also how sick his Arch rice was.

More reasons to use Linux:

  • Your OS no longer mails pictures of your genitalia to Steve Ballmer
  • Jiggling desktop windows
  • Richard Stallman stops sleeping underneath your bed
  • Always feel like hackerman
  • Helps starve the capitalist tech giants of their lifeblood
  • Penguins are dope
    • dead [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      A lot of wireless cards require a proprietary driver. Most of them have a proprietary driver for GNU/Linux. Proprietary means that the driver is a binary or source code that you are not legally allowed to understand or modify. Some say that this is because of FCC guidelines but I think it's because of the profit motive to not share how their device works, or maybe wireless cards have backdoors, we don't really know.

      Nevertheless, to make wifi work you would have to either install the proprietary driver, it might be in the repository, or you have to install a wireless card that doesn't require a proprietary driver.

      To install the proprietary driver, you would first open the command line and type "lspci". This is a command that lists all pci devices. Find the line for your wireless card so that you know which wireless card that you have. Here is a list of wireless drivers. Kernel.org is the official website of the Linux kernel. You can type your wireless card name into the search bar at the top and it will bring you to the page of your wireless driver name. Then you search your package manager and install the package that contains that driver, you might have to enable the proprietary software repository for your distro.

      Installing a different wireless card is not easy. Sure it's not that difficult to open your laptop and physically replace the card, except many laptop motherboards have a "wireless card whitelist". The whitelist prevents the laptop from booting if you install a wireless card that is not approved by the laptop manufacturer. To bypass this would require you to hack the bios chip with a chip flashing tool to remove the whitelist. I have done this before and it's not easy.

      You could also use a USB wireless stick. I have a USB wireless stick that doesn't require a proprietary driver. I can plug it into any GNU/Linux system and it works automatically because the driver for this stick is built into the kernel.