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Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down
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this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2025
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Okay, someone talk me down from the ledge here. I'm not techy, but I've been on Fedora for over a year, and dual booting since like 08. But the biggest hurdle back in the day for me was that my wifi was so hit or miss, even when it worked it was slow as shit. That and Netflix not working are what kept me from going full Ubuntu in like 09/10.
Am I going to have to go back to long ass Ethernet cords? Fuck, my laptop doesn't even have an Ethernet port :(
Dude chill it'll be fine. Why are you on the ledge after this post? Someone is obviously going to step up and take their place.
That's not obvious at all..
Maybe it is to people who are really deep into the Linux world but generally if there's only a single person in the world doing something, it's never obvious that someone else will start to do that if the first person stops.
Its pretty obvious that the folks at Linux aren't going to just say fuck the WiFi stack because the current sole maintainer is stepping down.
Also, it being a sole maintainer doesn't mean no one else would could do it.. Its probably a job that this person was able to handle solo and now that the position has become vacant, another will step in.
If this was some small niche I can understand the concern about the potential of having it go unfilled but WiFi / wireless is crucial.
Likely sole maintainer, not sole contributor
I don't know enough to be able to say how easy it is to take over, but having been done by a single person could mean that no one else has the skills or the interest to do it, or maybe to do it as well as the original person.
I can definitely see why it could make a Linux user worried.