Because Linux wireless support sucks. I mean why should I have to hack the latest Ubuntu to get WPA-PSK? Thats ridiculous. And to make it worse, I have to use a PCMCIA Atheros card and not the internal Intel one as there is no driver.
The Intel cards are among the best-supported wireless cards on Linux. The new one has been supported for a while now by the iwl4965 driver. It is in Ubuntu Gutsy (which is quite stable already, btw), and Gentoo, just to name two distributions.
Oh, and I am typing this on WPA-PSK with the native iwl4965 driver on x86-64, without any hacks or tweaks.
Why I'm using Vista right now (Score:1)
Err? iwl4965 works fine (Score:5, Informative)
Oh, and I am typing this on WPA-PSK with the native iwl4965 driver on x86-64, without any hacks or tweaks.