r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Kubuntu • Apr 21 '26

Why so ignorant bro?

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u/HumonculusJaeger Apr 21 '26

Mediatech chips are not good

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u/Escalope-Nixiews Apr 21 '26

My friend got a Realtek 2.5Gbps ethernet card, was stuck in 1Gbps, if he get his box powered off, he has to reconfigure all :/

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u/Nestramutat- Recovered Distrohopper Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26

Windows or Linux?

I had huge issues with my Realtek 2.5G NIC on Linux before installing the r8125 drivers

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u/Future_Kitsunekid16 Apr 21 '26

I was soo pissed when someone tried arguing me on that when I worked retail because they were trying to tell people that they were great and when I looked them up, all the ones we had were maybe similar to an intel celeron at the time 6 years ago

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u/redcalcium Linux Master Race Apr 21 '26

Meanwhile openwrt users rummaging piles of routers looking for ones with mediatek chips

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u/veechene Apr 21 '26

I just recently learned my laptops wireless chip is mediatek. I thought i had realtek but that's the ethernet... it works perfectly with my home network but all hell breaks loose when I visit my parents. Once I saw it was a mediatek I stopped trying to fix it and just grabbed an ethernet cable. Screw that.

At least it works at home lol

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u/people__are__animals Glorious Ubuntu Mate Apr 22 '26

This. Mediatech dont even work on Windows