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Well I myself have no patience at all to compile stuff myself, I can say I am half casual half linux nerd. I'm in the middle. Compiling stuff is too much, especially drivers and low level stuff like that. At that point I will just give up on the hardware or the OS/distro. That's mainly why I still dual boot. I have a SIM Racing setup and even with drivers that exist already and many awesome community made GUI tools (like Overdrive GUI) that get updated almost daily (which is impressive), it still is very hit or miss and most of the times it is either not detected at all or just half working. Even after using linux myself since the Ubuntu 7 and Gnome 2 days, I still dual boot Windows because well... sometimes life is just more peaceful when you can just reboot your pc and have funcional hardware again. I work under linux and play under windows. That's peace for me. Except nowadays I am staring to play non-Sim Racing stuff on linux too because Proton is amazing. But it still requires a lot of manual labor to make it work. And when I teach linux to other people I always teach the dual boot way and how they can easily jump back to what they are used to. In your case.... I think I would just get a different wifi card if possible. If its an embedded one, well... maybe I would just get a new motherboard/device anyway, or just use another OS and call it a day. Sometimes it's the better way. In your case probably the amount of people that need drivers for hardware like yours is diminishing day by day, so the probability of it ever getting fixed also diminishes. I found out that in the Linux world it's always better to stay with mainstream hardware as much as possible.
Nah, I don't currently have any problems with my hardware. I just happen to have acces to a lot of old hardware (at work) and play with that when I have some free time.
Of course, I also (still) dual boot. Mostly because of software that just doesn't run in Wine... and for work. But other than that, I'm mostly on Linux.