Didn't install linux for years now. Today, I have to and nothing changed about wifi drivers, at all ! Even the install process still sucks !

And they still ask to "sudo apt-get install fucking-wifi-driver" ?!?!?!

I don't have internet yet, that's the all point, damn it !

You can download the .deb file on a different machine and install it on yours. But yeah, I feel your problem. I gave up trying to get me nvidia driver work.

@620hun I've heard that the nvidia drivers are supported in Ubuntu 16.04 anymore. Is that true?

I guess you have a bad wifi card

@Linux @Linux And that bad wifi card probably works fine on Windows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@tahnik AFAIK you need the nVidia driver to make SLI work.

@620hun already try that and few other offline solutions.

@Linux Right, it's the wifi card, the graphic card, and the scanner.

What distro you tried to install?!

As far as I'm aware, all mainstream distros have quite simple installation procedures and detect hardware quite well, so no user intervention is needed.

P.S. Perhaps WiFi card isn't detected, but I'm pretty sure that wired Ethernet card is detected so it is, usually, quite easy to get working WiFi firmware/drivers from Internet.

Well you know the story behind the last decade war on propertary drivers and open source. Some bussiness heads should directly die in a deep deep deep hole. If not, I'm sure you can join a project developing those compatible drivers for Linux systems, they exist! It's easy to rant about it, but the reason behind does not.

proprietary*

@firusvg I installed ElementaryOS. I have already try it with a live USB on another computer. Didn't have wifi issue at the time. with this one wifi card is detected, drivers exist on internet. I downloaded them with my phone. I know the simplest way is to install it threw ethernet. But what about those new computers without ethernet port ? That sucks.

@Doctor-Az What?! No wired Ethernet port? Unless it is some ultrabook how manufacturer can justify that?!

P.S. I'm too old, in my days, even 10BASE-2 Ethernet was new tech. ;)
P.P.S. "Ne mere to bez kabla." (roughly translated, but without subtle sarcasm from original - "It's not possible to go without cable").

@firusvg It's not, thankfully, but my other computer is an ultrabook. That's why I'll definitly not try linux on it.

@Doctor-Az I understand. Too much hassle.

P.S. Actually, I don't use laptops, only desktops (and one netbook in extreme situations ;) so I have certain bias.

Try Mint. Love it to death. I have nvidia too.

@enchance I tried Mint, that's where I had that nvidia issue.

People seem to forget the pain that is to install windows from scratch without drivers. Thank god you have a package manager.

@azous "was" they actualy did a good job about it. I have to admit. Still don't like windows though.

Tbh I didn't have much of a problem with it, except that I had to plug an ethernet cable in for the installation (damn Intel wifi drivers) and of course the horrible hell-hole that is known as getting your gfx drivers working (which they still don't, by the way)

@azous From Vista and onwards all Windows came with some generic drivers that were fine until you installed proprietary drivers.

@620hun 😁 that's true as well

Had this exact problem with Windows 7 on a laptop... Installed Windows from a standard installation disc, had no drivers, including network and graphics drivers. So I was stuck in low-resolution mode with no network at all.

I ended up getting the drivers from a hard drive backup I had.