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Reay Jespersen Jun 6, 2023

A not pressing question for Linux types:

If I’m having new (and seemingly increasing) problems with getting and keeping a connection to my home wifi from my aging Windows laptop — this has been a growing problem since upgrading my storage to SSD and switching to Windows 10… Best Buy experts looked at it and confirmed nothing seems to be physically wrong with the adapter — would switching to Linux with the same hardware resolve that issue?

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eats, shoots, knits Jun 6, 2023

@reay I’m going to venture a guess - because I haven’t worked with Linux in Y E A R S - but possibly not. If you really feel like spending the time tinkering and making yourself a Linux rig, sure. But the reality is, not all hardware is supported/supported *well*. Furthermore, have you checked that there are no problems with your access point/router/whatever?

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eats, shoots, knits

@reay Sometimes there are issues with WiFi when one device has a lesser WiFi adapter than the router (a/b/g/n etc, it’s been years since I’ve dealt with this, too).