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TFA is mainly about BT dongles.

As far as WiFi, I have had approximately zero USB wifi adapters work rock-solid on linux. Best I have so-far is an old Realtek 2.4Ghz only b/g/n that needs to be unplugged and plugged back in every few days. No AC usb dongle I have tried has worked reliably for a full work-day on Linux.

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When you want to buy an usb wifi dongle and use, you should always check this awesome guide first[0].

It's up to date, the buying guide is sensible and this repo always has drivers not yet in mainline.

[0] https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi

Thanks for that resource; I've followed other "recommended" guides before and have a drawer full of mediatek and atheros based dongles that don't work reliably for me. Strangely enough my best experience (the b/g/n mentioned in my first comment) uses a realtek driver that is (or at least was at the time) out-of-tree, and it's made by TP-LINK which is generally recommended against because there is little correlation between part-numbers and chipsets used...

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