UPDATE - 2018-02-01: I was informed by @nmccrina that the repo linked to in this post is no longer maintained. Please use https://github.com/paspro/rtl8812au instead. NOTE: Most of the content from this post comes from a blog post I found that concentrated on getting the driver set up on Fedora 21. I did mostly the same steps with a few tweaks. Intro Driver support for 802.11ac in Linux is spotty especially if you are using a USB adapter.
