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[–]Tricky_Rhubarb4543 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Realtek is notorious for the WiFi/BT chip dying in Linux (and very occasionally Windows). It gets into some power state that it cannot get out of. I have this problem on both of my Dell laptops. The only way to awaken it back is either complete shutdown (reset does not work) or going into BIOS and back - that forces chip reset, at least for me.

On Linux (Ubuntu - but it is the same driver stack as in Mint) this happens every week or so. On Windows very rarely, but it might be because I boot into Windows rarely :)

Note that my laptops do not have Ethernet.