Comment by 🍀 gritty
Re: "Talk me in our out of this: I am struggling to not pick up…"
some captive portals work, some don't. I tried most of the tricks I could find online. I agree you can do anything in Linux but I don't know the exact problem so it's hard to find a solution. I'm sure it's a DNS setting buried somewhere in Debian but I haven't found it yet, and I'm not always in the mood to figure out how to get Linux to do something that's seamless in other OSs. sometimes it's fun, sometimes not.
Jan 25 · 3 months ago
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i have an idea.
you can get usb wifi dongle, then your windows vm willl see it.
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Talk me in our out of this: I am struggling to not pick up a cheap used laptop after the discussion about it on [gemini link] This Thread ...but not for Linux. I am happy with my Tuxedo InfinityBook S 15 and have no real need for a new laptop, but I find myself occasionally needing or wanting to use a Windows machine, either for logging into webmail for work without the hassle, or not dealing with wifi captive portals that refuse to work with linux despite hours of tinkering (my solution at...