> Try telling my mum: "you need to compile your own drivers".
What decade are you in? I haven't compiled a wifi driver for linux this decade. One of the problems desktop linux faces is outdated FUD like this. Is it perfect? Of course not. But it's not the phone-home privacy invader that is modern Windows (which also has it's own usability issues) or the elitist the-poor-can-go-get-stuffed OSX (where you have to buy a pricey computer in order to use it).
What decade are you in? I haven't compiled a wifi driver for linux this decade. One of the problems desktop linux faces is outdated FUD like this. Is it perfect? Of course not. But it's not the phone-home privacy invader that is modern Windows (which also has it's own usability issues) or the elitist the-poor-can-go-get-stuffed OSX (where you have to buy a pricey computer in order to use it).