ChimeraOS / ChimeraOS/chimeraos
Better Support for USB Wifi Dongles
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Because of the nature of this issue, i am unsure of what to do. Under normal circumstances i would simply build the drivers myself and install them as recommended but considering support isn't baked in by default and this is an immutable file system i decided to open this issue. Many gaming PCs may not have internet installed by default and a USB WiFi dongle is a good option for solving this issue as opposed to using a network card which can take up more space and money than a person originally intended. For example I have a TP-Link Archer T2U PLUS [RTL8821AU] which has many advocators as far as WiFi dongles go. I think it and other WiFi dongles should be given extra priority when it comes to there functionality under chimeraos. The direction that PC gaming has taken these past few years has proven that WiFi is becoming a very big part of a gamers arsenal. With games becoming physically bigger and many other games moving to the cloud or server based play I think chimeraos should put priority on WiFi dongles and network cards going forward. otherwise it may run into the issue of people complaining there WiFi doesn't work, an issue we can mostly fix by adding support for common WiFi devices (and possibly a prompt that can help with installing proprietary options). I see this as a big issue because of other issues we cant fix. Nvidia gamescope support is already making it harder for people to play games using chimeraos. Features are fun and all but if we alienate the OS by lacking proper device support and drivers than I feel as though many of chimeraos' amazing features over other Operating Systems are useless compared to its underlying issues. This could also allow us to add new features like syncing non-steam games and save files with a pride in knowing users have proper WiFi connectivity to allow for it.
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