Oh, but it's true.
Every few years, I install Linux on something just to see if it's getting any better.

Last month I tried Ubuntu on my HP laptop, booting off a USB drive. No wifi drivers. Bit of a fundamental problem, wouldn't you say?
(username failed moderation, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 11:06, 2 replies)

Well I installed Windows on my laptop and there were no wifi drivers
luckily nearly all wireless cards have drivers available online or on the disk for windows, mac osx and unix/linux
( Peej, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 11:44, closed)

That's nice.
Unfortunately, there weren't any for Linux.

Windows works fine though.
(username failed moderation, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 11:52, closed)

Try NDISwrapper?
It's really user friendly, honest!*
*These are industrial-scale lies
(universalpsykopath loves what you've done with your hair., Wed 19 Oct 2011, 16:33, closed)

that's more or less the same answer
you get Googling, and unfortunately I get kinda glassy eyed reading that kind of solution.
(username failed moderation, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 17:19, closed)

Then I would suggest you stop trying to install linux then and find an os more suited to your attention span.

(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Wed 19 Oct 2011, 19:04, closed)

Quite right
It's called Windows, or OSX.

This is pretty typical Linux talk.

"You can't get it to work, you're stupid".

Probably right, but having specced, designed, installed and maintained several large heterogenous transcontinental networks, being a CNE, MSCE and CCNA, I do know a little bit about how to set up a computer.

Linux is incomplete. That is the problem, it's not me.
(username failed moderation, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 10:08, closed)

Wow, just wow.
I thought you were trolling or trying to be clever.
Now it becomes clear that you think because your hardware manufacturer doesn't like Linux, or you're to stupid to understand how to install it, it's never used and works for nobody.
Being proud of ignorance is its own punishment.
.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 13:34, closed)

Well,
my hardware manufacturer doesn't provide drivers. Neither, it seems, do any Linux developers.

But if that means my Hardware manufacturer doesn't like Linux, so be it. It's HP, so it's not like they're some little tinpot outfit.

Now, where were we? Oh, that's right. I can't use Linux, becuase there are no drivers for WIFI.

I'm not too stupid to resolve this - maybe I'm lazy, but writing my own drivers seems like a bit of a faff. I'll use Windows instead.
(username failed moderation, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:28, closed)

I installed
windows 7 on a work PC, not only were there no wi-fi drivers, it didn't even install bog-standard ethernet drivers so I could get to our network and install the wi-fi driver. This was a Dell - so again, not a tin-pot company around the corner.
(dchurch bah, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 17:48, closed)

But I'm pretty sure you got it
solved in the end, and I doubt it took very long.

With a Linux problem, you run the gauntlet of a) forums where a bunch of skript kiddies simply can't answer a simple question without trying to impress you with their deep understanding of the OS itself, for which read incomprensible and irrelevant garbage, or b) shit flinging chimps like we have here, who also can't answer a simple question, and hide that fact by telling you you're stupid, and it's your own fault.

Result is always the same - Linux has a very low market share, becuase it's just not actually very good, or very easy to live with.
(username failed moderation, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 10:12, closed)