Let's kick it. This be a long, thorough and fairly positive review of Xubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak 64-bit edition, tested on a laptop with UEFI, Secure Boot, GPT, 16 partitions, and multiple instances of Windows and Linux, covering live session, installation, and post-install use, including look & feel, Wireless, Bluetooth, Samba sharing and printing, multimedia playback - MP3 and HD video, smartphone support - iPhone and Ubuntu Phone, partitioning, slideshow, package management and replacement of Gnome Software with Ubuntu Software Center, applications, resource usage, hardware support, suspend & resume, battery life, customization, extra software, some problems with network connectivity, small visual glitches and bugs, and more. I can honestly say, enjoy. http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/xubuntu-yakkety-yak.html Cheers, Mrk
Realtek card is one of those things not supported well in Ubuntu. Simplest fix is to replace it with a Broadcom card, which is supported - you can get wireless up and running with the supplied drivers once you've installed them through Ethernet and rebooted.
That's not a fix. That's ignoring the reality. IPhone is also not well supported. And neither are many printers. Hybrid graphics cards. And so on and on, and it's always someone else's fault. Mrk