WiFi card is a component you can't really choose. CPU, memory, graphic card and storage, are probably the main reason people buy a laptop, but not a WiFi card. It's just a tiny device you always think and expect to work without problem. Today, almost any network device work out of the box under Linux kernel. If not, the proprietary firmware can be easily installed. Unfortunately, there are few issues with few WiFi cards in Linux. Realtek is one in the list. I have a laptop with realtek 8821ce wifi card that always works properly on my Ubuntu machine. There is a package called rtl8821ce-dkms I can install directly from Ubuntu's repository and the wifi will work as it should. Sadly, this package is deprecated in Ubuntu 22.10 repository and doesn't work with Ubuntu 22.04's kernel 5.19 upgrade. Apparently, there is already a module rtw88_8821ce included in Linux kernel. But this driver doesn't work properly yet. You have to be near your wifi router to be able to ge...
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