In today's Ubuntu
world
users do hope and expect it to work, they are not always the anoraks of
old who want it hard and command line controlled. As I said elsewhere
some versions do work at once and other do not. Yes you can get into
using Windows drivers vis ndiswrapper but its a thing windows just never
needs. In this day and age it should be possible to get a linux driver
for a modern card and install it without command line complexities in
my view .

I agree that this is not the preferred way. It works if that is your only
choice. In other words, as long as you have your Windows disk you should be able
to get your wireless to work even if there are no Linux drivers.