But those Arc cards actually look good (for the low budget segment they are in that is…) and are mainly held back by lackluster drivers. So I get the decision.

Would be nice if this was the only (or one of just a few) Realtek chips that are a fucking mess…

There might a common problem with those Realtek devices but I fail to find it. 😅

I would assume people running a modern kernel on an orignal 32-bit first generation Pentium machine don’t need such an excuse as they have to do it constantly already…

I’m pretty sure the unmodified/-optimized kernel doesn’t even fit the RAM of 1990’s Thinkpads.