I'm not sure that the NIC on one of the most popular Asus motherboards is really outside of everyday user territory. In my case, it's a realtek onboard ethernet chip.

On a "normal" distro the drivers for this are pretty easy to install, and is definitely something an everyday user could achieve (double click a single file in the download from realtek).

[–] kadup@lemmy.world -5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

if you need specific drivers that arent in a generic kernel you’re already out of everyday user territory even on a normal distro.

People will say some absurd statement like this one and then pretend to be confused when Linux adoption fails to grow faster.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 day ago

Its OK for them to step out of everyday user territory no one is saying they can't. Its just that installing drivers on Linux is not common.

The nvidia driver is the only thing I can think that an average user would need to install and that is shipped pre installed in most distros.

Also I'm not confused Linux isn't growing fast enough. I'm surprised limux is growing as fast as it is. Linux is growing at an insane rate.