I thought "speak to basically everything out there" was more about connecting to systems and exchanging information. It reminded me of my brief adventures with Vista trying to connect to my Win2k machines. Of course that was Winders to Winders so that doesn't really apply... :-/

So, I don't think Linux has any particular problems with WiFi (war drivers use it, after all). But exchanging information with other systems might be an issue (for relative newbies like me, anyway).

I hope that clears up what I was trying to insinuate from my position of limited knowledge. ;-)

Cheers,
Scott.