Not a dongle, mini PCIe laptop WiFi and BT card… easy enough switcheroo, but re-attaching the antenna cables is always a PITA, have to put a magnifying glass over it to see what I’m doing! Damn 61 year old eyes!
So - anyway - my main x86_64 (Intel or AMD) laptops (I have 3 I power up and use) all have Intel chipset PCIe… The Realtek piece of crap I took out of the Thinkpad is spare / unused (might even toss it in the bin)… Try and avoid Realtek, they’re mostly garbage, some might work out of the box in Linux, many won’t (unless you’re game to grab the source - I did that once, but I rebuild my PC’s n laptops [re-install Linux] so often, that wasn’t really viable)…
I have one I ordered specially (USB dongle) because it’s Kali compatible (i.e. works out of the box in Linux and supports “monitor” mode - note Raspberry Pi WiFi does monitor mode out of the box) - I think it might even be Realtek chipset… But mostly I’d rather not have to juggle around dongles, all my laptops (4 on my desk right now - 2 x Linux 2 x MacOS) have builtin WiFi…
I just had a look at this page (checking Kali wifi recommendations) : Best USB WiFi Adapter For Kali Linux 2023 [Updated August]
I don’t know if you need or want monitor mode, but those on that list all work with Linux…
I hardly ever use WiFi on my desktop machine, but when I do - I rely on a PCIe card that also doubles as BlueTooth (I DO NEED BLUETOOTH!). In fact, all around, I vastly prefer ethernet to WiFi…