@allison @anonicus >Respecting the users freedom is autism
>It's good to shit all over the users freedom to install proprietary software without even asking or advising the user adequately as to what software is being installed.
Most wired NIC's work just fine without proprietary malware aside from broadcom garbage - I believe Mint systemd/Linux is probably shipping with a older Linux driver that doesn't workaround a hardware bug in the NIC (considering that's it's just even more outdated debian with a few changes), while Debian ships a slightly newer version with the bug worked around - alas proprietary malware being installed automatically gets the credit.

I've found that the internet just work, with both wired and Wi-Fi on free distros like Trisquel with non-garbage hardware.