Many expressed their appreciation for Kalle's years of service to the Linux networking stack but as of writing no one has stepped up to take over the formal maintainer role. Thankfully there are other Linux WiFi driver developers out there working on the increasing number of Linux wireless drivers, just not any immediate leader yet to take on the maintainer duties.

Good to know :)

While I didn't use Linux back then, I heard the wifi situation was difficult to deal with. I assume this maintainer is responsible for fixing that over the years?

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 55 points 10 hours ago (9 children)

I heard the wifi situation was difficult to deal with

Understatement of the year LMAO nah it was terrible. Typically the top 3 biggest PITA common issues was GPU, WiFi and trackpad, in that order. Every. Time. Didn't have the right brand, you were SOL. If you had a Dell with that wonderful WiFi card whitelist the damn brands that worked were always off it or were crappy.

Though I'd take WiFi driver issues over having to deal with that dam GPU bumble bee-thingy (idr anymore, the gaming laptop GPU "hot switching" thing)

I'm going to go lay down and have my trauma flashbacks now...

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Typically the top 3 biggest PITA common issues was GPU, WiFi and trackpad, in that order. Every. Time.

Nvidia drivers are literally the reason I keep going back to windows on my gaming rig. Any time I get a Linux install working the way I like it, within 6-10 months the graphics would shit the bed and I'd fight with it until I gave up and went back just to have a working is with minimal after work IT bullshit.

All my servers are Linux tho. I'll probably try again later in the year when 10 goes EOS

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Not saying you need to do this, especially if you do 4K, but my solution was just buying AMD GPUs. I'm on a Radeon RX 6800 now (RX 580 before) and things are just so nice and easy with my dual-boot.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 hours ago

If I had to give up either Linux or Nvidia, it's not even a question. It's Nvidia, and it's not even close.

I sold my 3070 and bought a 7800xt just so I could have a smoother experience, and I wasn't even having issues.

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