You do know he was being sarcastic right? and no people like him don't keep people off of Linux. Linux keeps people off of Linux.
Oh my bad I didn't know he was being sarcastic... Sorry.
But I do believe that people who flame others for having x or y distro are one of the main reasons why people keep their distance from Linux.
eh, you get that from absurd Linux fan boys. Linux users who don't see any good from anything other than Linux. you can tell by how incredibly closed minded they are.
i was not sarcastic. I was serious.
Firmware locking has been a problem for me when doing this (but a while ago now), even getting a card from the same maker it may not work, modified firmware is sometimes available, and many systems don't care.
If that is an issue, or just for fun, you could use an intermediate device. There are numerous battery or microUSB power-able routers. Get one that'll run OpenWRT and you can just plug in a USB wifi in to connect to anything.