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