I can ' t guess as to my distance from uComputersavvy but what I can tell you is . With Linux , you can make computers , and their peripherals , do anything YOU can think of , limited ofcourse to the physical capacity of the hardware . YES Linux Hacker or even Linux never coded in my life monkey following instructions from google LIKE ME can make a wifi card work louder in your laptop . So you can reach further away networks . In fact , you could be crazy and order your wifi card to work faster and faster for the only purpose of breaking it , If you had to even . Sounds crazy huh ? Why would you intentionally overheat a computer ? or device controlled by a computer like a UPS ? ?? Oh my . NO Linux Hacker will not remotely access your laptop and turn it into a little transformer boomerang looping around your living room .