> "Goofy problems [...] abound for a _long time_ with seemingly no solution" is the norm in desktop Linux.

Hey, it's still better than Windows:) To quote a bit from upthread,

>>i should add that this happens on both windows and linux but at least on linux i had a way of disabling LAR so my regulatory domain gets detected properly and all the wifi channels/widths works as they should.

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35199660)

Had, not has. That option no longer exists.

I remember trying to find a USB wifi adapter that actually has WPA3 driver support on Windows. Hell.

Not really. Desktop Linux destroys every other user experience I've had without trying.