1 why/how would you break glibc? This sounds like you're "holding it wrong"? You don't go willy-nilly changing system dlls on windows, do you? 2 yeah, nvidia d

1 why/how would you break glibc? This sounds like you're "holding it wrong"? You don't go willy-nilly changing system dlls on windows, do you? 2 yeah, nvidia does not support linux/Foss. It sucks. Buy amd, or use windows. 3 I've not really seen this lately. Ubuntu/canonical does a pretty good and pragmatic job of enabling non-free drivers - but sure, not all vendors care. See 2. 4 not with eg Ubuntu 20.04 lts Wayland. I'm rather positively impressed with the settings app. I'm not all that happy personally with all the dbus/changes that enable this pretty gui - I tend to prefer simple config files. But at any rate - I don't think your point 4 has been true for a while. 5 yes and no? Honestly I think the only config files I'm editing is nvim and vs code. My terminal for example has a perfectly usable gui preferences coupled with a perfectly readable and version controllable config file. Well and the occasional bash rc tweak. 6 maybe? 7 I think it's more that hw vendors don't care about Linux, so it takes a lot of time for drivers etc to materialize. 8 Hopefully pipewire will kill pulse audio, and this will cease to be the case.