I don't like it, but that's the way it is for me.

Just about every Winders laptop comes with some vendor-supplied WiFi networking gizmo to "make it easier". They're often multi-hundred-megabyte monstrosities. And Winders comes with its own. Quite often, in my experience, they can conflict and it can be very difficult to fix when something goes wrong (e.g. if you try to "clean" your system by getting rid of cruft that you think you don't need).

"Well then, there's your problem! You're still using Winders!!!1" I know, I know.

:-)

But I find the same thing with versions of Linux I've tried. In Ubuntu, quite often changes to the WiFi settings don't seem to "stick" for some reason. E.g., now I seem to be having issues with DNS lookups timing out on one of my laptops. I've tried in the past to fix such things and have ended up with WiFi networking not working at all, so I haven't been brave enough to try fixing it again.

Yes, I know that Ubuntu's WiFi settings are just a front-end to the real utilities and a simple script will take care of that. I haven't had time to learn that (and put it somewhere that I can find it again in the future).

If it works, it's not worth messing with to make it correct in most circumstances.

YMMV, and does. :-)

Cheers,
Scott.