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The WiFi/Bluetooth one was common on AM4, I think, I also had that issue.

The integrated wifi/bt on my AM5 board was so bad I had to disable it and use a PCIe card.

For obvious reasons AMD boards don’t tend to ship with Intel wifi, but in my experience anything else sucks. The intel 6e cards are amazing and dirt cheap.

I’ve had some weirdness with Intel WiFi cards over the years too, especially when dual booting.

Was it the 9560 by chance? (The original AC / wifi5 one) Those were terrible. Our house isn’t practical to wire, so I had a lot of them. All swapped to AX210 cards (6E) and those work phenomenally.

I also dual boot, in addition to being an incurable distro hopper, and these AX210 cards worked out of the box in basically everything.

Yeah I’ve got a Lenovo Legion laptop that I dual-boot Windows and Linux. I haven’t tried in a while but for at least a year it was impossible to soft-reboot to switch OSes if you wanted wifi to work. My best theory was that Windows and Linux had different firmware that they loaded into it at boot and they weren’t reloading that after a soft reboot (just using whatever was already running on the card).

> For obvious reasons AMD boards don’t tend to ship with Intel wifi, but in my experience anything else sucks.

Cause realtek checks the box for has wifi and costs probably $3 less? If you care, you can swap it, and if you don't, you don't.

> For obvious reasons AMD boards don’t tend to ship with Intel wifi

Funnily enough, the threadripper (at least WRX90, and at least asrock) come with an Intel dual 10Gb LAN card. Probably because none of the alternatives are good enough for a pro board.

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