I am trying to understand even the basics of the forum page. It all looks so confusing, sorry to be so lost. I am trying to get my wifi working in mint 19, but what I have found is complicated text and little to no help. the laptop is an RCA with Linux installed on top of Windows 10. Is there an simple way to find out about the wifi card and make it work in Linux. Thanks for any help, sorry to be so lost.

Which forum page?
What do you mean by that? How did you install Linux - as a virtual machine guest, dual-booting alongside Windows, using the Windows subsystem for Linux, something else?
"Simple" means different things to different people, so the answer is "it depends on what you mean". If I show you a document I consider simple, how can I know that it's simple for you, or you haven't read it yet?

To get help at Linuxquestions, describe your configuration, in particular the model number of the Wifi hardware. Tell us what you tried and how it failed. Are there error messages? Tell us which documents you find confusing, and if possible which parts of those documents.

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All things are confusing when you're new to them. Gradually, it'll become less and less confusing as you learn things. The thing is you need to invest time in reading, trying out things, etc.

When you start your computer does it have a screen where you choose which system to start (eg. Windows or Linux) or do you load your Windows system and then you have to open a virtual machine application to run Linux?

What's the wifi card model? If you google, 'how to find my wifi card model' or something similar, you'll get tens of articles/videos.

Regarding how to use Linux Questions, this might help: https://www.linuxquestions.org/linux...xQuestions_org

I'd use windows to find what it is maybe. Otherwise you'd have to use a terminal command like lspci or lsusb. Maybe modprobe.


I'd suggest that you use the Ubuntu help pages and use Ubuntu in search terms for web. There would be more results and better help I think.