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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

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_ 9mo ago
2005 is a really long time ago.
- justarandomname 9mo ago
  Yeah, 2 decades! I was just enjoying a bit of nostalgia for that old clunky grey laptop.
  - debo_ 9mo ago
    I regularly installed debian back then, and it would take me a week to get things working pretty much every time.
  - nkydr0i0 9mo ago
    Reminds me of how the MC in Pantheon uses an old clunker :)
kelnos 9mo ago
When it comes to WiFi on Linux, 2005 experiences are irrelevant to today.
- justarandomname 9mo ago
  Things have come a long way! For years after I would only buy Atheros WiFi cards, these days its usually Intel ones.