[justarandomname]

My first laptop back in 2005ish or so was a Dell Latitude. Ran XP until Vista came out and I switch to Linux which it ran for a couple years until it was stolen from my car. I recall unimaginable pain and suffering due to wifi, which, IIRC, I side-stepped by buying replacing the stock Broadcom card with an Atheros card and I'm certain is not nearly much of an issue as it used to be.

[debo_]

2005 is a really long time ago.

[justarandomname]

Yeah, 2 decades!

I was just enjoying a bit of nostalgia for that old clunky grey laptop.

[kelnos]

When it comes to WiFi on Linux, 2005 experiences are irrelevant to today.

[justarandomname]

Things have come a long way!

For years after I would only buy Atheros WiFi cards, these days its usually Intel ones.