Plugs in realtek wireless adapter

>plugs in realtek wireless adapter
>windows 10: install drivers; works straight away
>ubuntu: KERNAL PANIC

year of the linux desktop never

>He fell for the lunix maymay

This kind of things really makes it hard for me to move away from Windows.

...

>falling for the GNUmale/LincuckOS meme

>proprietary hardware

if you had any intellect at all you'd research the cause of this, make it into an exploitable bug, turn it into a priv esc exploit, and sell it for tens of thousands of dollars.

That is very harmful to other users and goes against the GNU philosophy. What do you have to say for yourself?

If you were to say you were having issues with Broadcom, then I'd believe you. Realtek though? Eh, something smells fishy, and it's not just OP's mom.

I'm not having problems with Realtek, that works properly. I'm having problems with Linux.

this is what happens when you write your kernel in C.

Do you mind if I take off my pants?

Fix it, brainlet

why
why can't you just, for fucking once, make a good thread
why do you have to suck so many dicks at such a magnificent rate
why, OP?

because I'm a faggot?

>mfw it's another buttmad sub 80 IQ ape trying Linux and failing.

>mfw it's actually 126 and it didn't fail, it's just that Linux itself doesn't work.

>126 IQ individual prefers to shitpost on 3chins instead of doing a 5 seconds Google search
>lying on the internet

5 second search for what?

which distro, which kernel

Ubuntu 16.04
4.4.0, I believe.

wow that sucks for you

Fuck off twat

no

Your problem, brainlet

ok

you can try kernel 4.8 from the repos

what change from 4.4 to 4.8 is possibly going to make it suddenly work?

Do you even know what a kernel is?

Slow down, you are talking to a 124 IQ here.

yes
hint: it won't change shit

reeeeeeeeeeeee

>smart but stupid

KEK, sure mate. Just use windows then.

I am
and it works

see OP

>mfw to smart to understand Kernels

the kernel is the core of an OS, starting first and handling low level stuff, including i/o.

>mfw inteligence lvl over 9000

>linux fag's only argument is ad hominem
>mfw

the kernel is the powerhouse of the computer

And Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

What on EARTH is your point?

the only time i got a kernel panic was when i accidentaly removed the boot usb stick during install

It's no use, his 120 IQ intelligence is beyond normal human's comprehension

OP: I'm suffocating!
user: Breathe, faggot, breathe!
OP: I shouldn't have to, and stop calling me names! :(

>kernel panic

what an anxiety inducing combination of words

>mfw I failed installing arch twice the other day because I forgot to run grub-install and just did grub-mkconfig on it's own
That microcode update section on their guide is really distracting and made me forget it.

Just remember that grub-install is initial setup, and mkconfig is for unfucking an already set up machine

>and sell it for tens of thousands of dollars.
Only to have it patched the same day. Good luck with that on Windows.

you can always arch-chroot from the install environment and update grub

Yeah, I did that the second time when I realized my mistake, but the first time during install I thought "why not try btrfs" and blamed it on that.

You should grab a kdump. Unfortunately, with Ubuntu recompiling your kernel is a bigger pain than it's worth, so it's probably fucked until Ubuntu upstreams the newer kernel. Try Void Linux or Gentoo and use the latest kernel.

Wouldn't you have to release the virus source code under the GPL?

>be OP
>god tier IQ
>installing new driver
>mfw no .exe file
>open ubuntu driver installer GUI utility
>double click "install"
>mfw kernel panic
>boot into Windows 10 Ultimate Edition
>open Microsoft Edge
>search Microsoft Bing for "ubuntu kernel panic"
>mfw RTFM is too hard

Well, you are kind of a dumbass for not checking compatibility before you bought the hardware.

So the 120 IQ guy can't even spell kernel correctly

colonel*

Memeing aside, the OP brings up a valid point.

GNU/Linux still has trouble with drivers, especially when it comes to newer hardware. I have only had success with GNU/Linux on machines older than 3 or 4 years.

Linux is just a kernel. The manufactures not writing drivers for a specific OS is not the fault of the OS. That being said, hardware compatibility is one of the first things you should check on if you want to use Linux full time.

Yeah that's kind of what I'm getting at.